The Burden of Womanhood: The Role of Northern Nigerian Woman in Family and Nation Building: A Womanist Reading of Veronica Phebe’s The Hound and Rezinat Mohammed’s Habiba.
Journal Title: Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Abstract: African literature projects deeply embedded and enduring patterns of thoughts alongside the feelings and behavior of the society from which it is drawn. In so doing, it recounts the struggles and challenges of the communities for which it is written. The Nigerian writer as an African, probes and responds to the yearning of his nation. This paper is set to focus on the northern Nigerian woman/writer because, the African woman both as a writer and character in the society is surrounded by societal issues that affects her directly or indirectly. As such, the writer is faced with the task of voicing out these issues, projecting female characters that bear the burden of womanhood and the effect of this burden, using the two northern Nigeria writers in the texts, The Hound and Habiba in examining the societal burden placed on the northern woman and the effect of this burden on her and the nation. An effect that turns out to instill a negative personality and perception in these characters as the struggle for self- actualization and the challenges of being women or are destroyed by these impediments. Keywords: Womanhood, societal burden, The Hound and Habiba, self- actualization
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Aisha M. Umar
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