Breaking the Taboo of Marriage and Childbearing: Nwapa’s Commitment in One is Enough
Journal Title: Advance Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Discoveries - Year 2018, Vol 31, Issue 31
Abstract
In the past and as well as up to date, the humiliating treatment women face in marriage and childbearing in the African societies, as illustrated in the African literatures by some male writers, coupled with the willingness that characterizes African women writers, in general, and Nwapa, in particular, to explore all the possibilities to move women from the margin to the center attract our attention and raise a need for the current research. The study focuses on some of the evil practices against the freedom of women with regard to marriage and childbearing which have continued to persist in the African societies. The social context of marriage and the meaning attached to birthing constitute a good starting point for appreciating the image of women in the Igbo society. Thus, Nwapa’s commitment in One is Enough relates not only to the writer’s awareness of the women’s problems but also and mainly the commitment of the writer in voicing the problems of women and all women’s attainment of self-liberation and social transformation. This could, genuinely, be attributed to the fact that the social conditions under which the writer produces her work is patriarchal in nature. As a result, Nwapa, by virtue of gender experience as well as by her desire to transform these experiences into weapons of change, is committed to react to socio cultural norms that discriminate women.
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Maina Ouarodima
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