Miradas reflexivas, tratamiento y representaciones de la maternidad a través de narrativas breves de escritoras subsaharianas de expresión inglesa
Keywords:
motherhood, Africa, African literature, narratives, Anglo-African literature.Abstract
This article examines the concept of motherhood, as a notion and as an institution, through different short stories of three generations of English-speaking sub-Saharan women writers such as Nigerian Flora Nwapa and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zimbabwean Melissa Tandiwe Myambo and South African Zoë Wicomb, in order to analyze and reflect on the representation and treatment of motherhood in the narratives of these authors. These narratives reveal a powerful social, cultural, familial, sacred, and colonial component of women's lives where dominant social, cultural, and religious discourses contribute significantly to the ways in which the identities of motherhood are interpreted in their respective societies. Their texts are a true reflection of the social, patriarchal, and institutional challenges of motherhood that African women must face in order to cope with and overcome the obstacles they face in a society where the norm mandates that the primary role of women is that of motherhood.
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