THEMATIC APPRAISAL OF SELECTED FEMALE WRITINGS

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THEMATIC APPRAISAL OF SELECTED FEMALE WRITINGS (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)

 

 

ABSTRACT

African female writers just as their writings, arose due to the patriarchal necessitation and the pressure in women to portray a female perspective to the socio-political vision of African women contrary to what has been portrayed by their male counterparts. With Joys of Motherhood and Women at Point Zero by Buchi Emecheta and Nawal El Sadawi as case study, this project examines the thematic preoccupation of female writings, the challenges as well as the place of the African women and their literature in a male dominated society. In the concluding chapters, recommendations has been proffered as solution to some of the identified challenges. 

CHAPTER ONE

1.1     Introduction/Background of the Study

Women writings arose out of the desire to introduce a female perspective to the socio-political vision of African women contrary to what was being portrayed by male writers and to address issues relating to female subjugation in order to expose the cultural impediments to female agency (htt://suite101.com/article/importance of domestic in women lit assessed on 1.03.2013 at 11.55pm).

As a result of this, African female writers have treated a range of themes such as; the positions and roles of women as mothers and daughters within the institution of marriage. The encumbrances attendant on societal and traditional role for women, female circumcision, and gender inequality. These and many more which would be examined in this research, are all contained in such works as Emechata’s The Joys of Motherhood and Ba’s So Long a Letter.

Flora Nwapa’s Efuru (1966) is Anglophone Africa’s first female novel. other Anglophone female novelists include Buchi Emecheta, Ifeoma Okoye, Zaynab Alkali, Naline Gordimer. Some women also became accomplished playwrights. Efua Sutherland, Zulu sojola and Tess Onwueme being the most famous.

In addition, themes like ‘The nature of power’, ‘the correlation between surveillance and ownership’ (htt://suite101.com/article/importance of domestic in women lit) are also contained in Nawal El Sadawis Women at Point Zero.

One of women’s most perceived problems is ‘freedom’, not just from their African male counterparts, but the colonial masters. Thus, themes on colonialism has featured prominently in female writings. This is evident in The Joys of Motherhood which has as one of its themes, the influence of colonialism.

African women writers are just beginning to come into their own, but they are facing many obstacles along the way. This study examines some of the many themes which African female writers share.

According to Dwakwel, Pauline Ada (1995:75-84), Buchi Emecheta has been disowned by several African male writers and critics for being too bold in her portrayal of women characters in her novels. This and other African women authors have discussed the problems they face when they try to write about either strong African women characters or female characters that suffer at the hands of men.

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