African Women's Quest for Self-Realization : a feminist perspective

ISBN-13: 9783846543696 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 112 str.

Amina Sail

Opis

African Women's Quest for Self-Realization is a literary study of the Nigerian woman writer Buchi Emecheta's novels: The Joys of Motherhood and The Slave Girl. It offers a critical reading of Emecheta's female charatcers and their depiction in an attempt to provide satisfactory answers to the hot debates concerning the feminist ideology of her writings.Our book is a study of the representation of the Nigerian woman s identity as female, black,colonized,and African in order to explain how race and gender were woven together as determinant factors that affected the female experience under colonialism.

O autorze

Amina Sail has obtained a master degree from the University of Algiers in 2009 in African women's literature. Since then she has been teaching civilization and academic writing at the same university. She is equally starting her PhD project in the field of women's writing.