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THE ENIGMA OF TRAUMATIZED
‘WOMANHOOD’
IN BUCHI EMECHETA’S ‘THE JOYS OF
MOTHERHOOD’ AND
ALICE WALKER’S ‘THE COLOUR PURPLE’

Prepared by: Sneha Agravat
Semester : 04
Batch : 2020-22
Paper : African Literatures
Topic : The Enigma of Traumatized ‘Wo...

Introduction
Buchi Emecheta of African-Nigerian literature and
Alice Walker of African-American literature are
considered ...

Buchi Emecheta
● Nigerian novelist
● Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta
● Born: 21 July 1944, Lagos, Nigeria
● plays and an autob...

The Joys of Motherhood
● Published in London, UK, by Allison & Busby in 1979
and was reprinted in Heinemann's African Writ...

Alice Walker
● born February 9, 1944
● American novelist
● short story writer
● poet
● social activist
● 1982, she became ...

The Colour Purple
● Publish :- 1982
● epistolary novel
● won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982
● A feminist work about an abused
an...

‘‘womanist’ and ‘Feminist’
During that time, women of colour, particularly African and African-
American women, were not o...

I write about the little happenings
of everyday life. Being a woman,
and African born, I see things
through an African wom...

Trauma Theory
● origin : 1960s
● Trauma is generally described as damage to the body or
psyche caused by some form of shoc...

Both the female protagonists are subjected to horrific experiences
as a result of the patriarchal society in which they li...

Both stories thus examine the issue of 'womanhood' and
the terrible situations they had to go through in order to
reach th...

Nnu Ego (The Joys of Motherhood)
● Protagonist
● The prominent aspect that this
novel portrays is the ‘trauma’ of
motherho...

● In a very patriarchal culture, the novel The Joys of Motherhood shows
violence against women. The work successfully depi...

Celie (The Colour Purple)
● Protagonist
● Celie is a black woman
● an outstanding portrayal of the
epistolary style, exhib...

● This demonstrates how a woman loves everything and
everyone in order to gain control. The novel's female
protagonists ar...

● To show that Womanism is a darker shade of Feminism,
Alice Walker uses the colours purple for womanist and
lavender for ...

conclusion
● As a result, it is possible to conclude that patriarchal
society's rules are constantly opposed by women.
Eme...

References
Emecheta, Buchi. “Feminism with Small ‘f’.” Criticism and Ideology: Second African Writers’
Conference Stockhol...

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