Womanhood and Motherhood in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru (1966) and Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day (1980)
| dc.contributor.author | KahlatT Sarra | |
| dc.contributor.author | Alimarina Cylia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-20T08:22:32Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-20T08:22:32Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description | 56p. ; (+CD-Rom) | |
| dc.description.abstract | Our work centered on the notion of womanhood in non-white societies that have different views of motherhood. We have relied on the work of Bell Hooks to study these themes in the prominent novels of Flora Nwapa Efuru (1966) and Clear Light of Day (1980) of Anita Desai. Our work was divided into two chapters, the first discussing the historical backgrounds of the two stories, both the Igbo community of Nigeria and the partition of India in the past century and their effects on the lives of women in those environments. The second chapter dived into an analysis of the main characters of the novels in order to extrapolate the intertwinement of gender and societal norms in the lives of the protagonists Efuru and Bim, and show how they fought against these established standards. The results we reached were that the struggles of women in the settings of the novels went beyond the gender issue into other kinds of repression, while the two main characters asserted themselves through diligence and hard work. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | General and Comparative Literature | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/28959 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou | |
| dc.subject | Feminism | |
| dc.subject | gender roles | |
| dc.subject | motherhood | |
| dc.subject | patriarchy | |
| dc.subject | womanhood | |
| dc.subject | womanism | |
| dc.title | Womanhood and Motherhood in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru (1966) and Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day (1980) | |
| dc.type | Thesis |