The Role of Nigerian Women in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood (1979) and Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come (2005)
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Date
2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
Our research paper studied the matters of patriarchy and women’s resistance in Nigerian society through analyzing the two African works, Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood (1979) and Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come (2005). The aim of our dissertation was to depict the psychological and the physical impacts of patriarchal oppression and men’s authority over black women. To achieve our goal, we relied on Alice Walker’s Womanism (1983) and Clenora Hudson-Weems Africana Womanism (1993), we tried to demonstrate how the two writers Buchi Emecheta and Sefi Atta shown in their novels the different ways in which black women were marginalized by men and how they resisted to all patriarchal acts in order to regain their liberty. In fact, our work was made up of two chapters. In the first one, we relied on Alice Walker’s concepts: racism, classism and gender inequality, we explained how these three oppressive forces affected black women’s personalities and attitudes. In the second chapter, we exposed the African Nigerian culture and social expectations that abused and condemned Nigerian women through the use of Clenora Hudson-Weem’s theory. Additionally, we explained how Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood (1979) and Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come (2005) tried to give voice to the oppressed black women to reach their self-fulfillment. At the end of our dissertation, we attained a conclusion that summed up the harsh conditions and the obstacles that Nigerian women were facing in their everyday lives and their resistance to the patriarchal acts.
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66p. ; 30cm.+(cd)
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African Black women, racism, classism, gender inequality, womanism, Africana womanism, motherhood, family centerdness, identity, resistance.
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Interdisciplinary Literary Approach