{"title":"Zikora: A Short Story","authors":"K. Osigwe","doi":"10.1080/10131752.2021.1926106","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The theme of motherhood and childbearing is not new in African women’s literature. In fact, it is one of the recurrent subjects in most first-generation and second-generation African women’s writing, including Flora Nwapa’s Efuru (1966) and One Is Enough (1981), Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1981), Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen (1974) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979), to mention a few. These women writers focus so much on marriage, motherhood, and family matters that some critics have described their works as “domestic literature” or simply “motherhood literature” (Nnaemeka 1994; Ogundipe-Leslie 1987).","PeriodicalId":41471,"journal":{"name":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"81 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"English Academy Review-Southern African Journal of English Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2021.1926106","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The theme of motherhood and childbearing is not new in African women’s literature. In fact, it is one of the recurrent subjects in most first-generation and second-generation African women’s writing, including Flora Nwapa’s Efuru (1966) and One Is Enough (1981), Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1981), Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen (1974) and The Joys of Motherhood (1979), to mention a few. These women writers focus so much on marriage, motherhood, and family matters that some critics have described their works as “domestic literature” or simply “motherhood literature” (Nnaemeka 1994; Ogundipe-Leslie 1987).
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The English Academy Review: A Journal of English Studies (EAR) is the journal of the English Academy of Southern Africa. In line with the Academy’s vision of promoting effective English as a vital resource and of respecting Africa’s diverse linguistic ecology, it welcomes submissions on language as well as educational, philosophical and literary topics from Southern Africa and across the globe. In addition to refereed academic articles, it publishes creative writing and book reviews of significant new publications as well as lectures and proceedings. EAR is an accredited journal that is published biannually by Unisa Press (South Africa) and Taylor & Francis. Its editorial policy is governed by the Council of the English Academy of Southern Africa who also appoint the Editor-in-Chief for a three-year term of office. Guest editors are appointed from time to time on an ad hoc basis.
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