�Foundational fictions� Variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa�s early Anglophone-Igbo novels

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dc.contributor.authorMoola, Fiona Fatima
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-28T08:51:45Z
dc.date.available2022-01-28T08:51:45Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe Igbo marriage song recorded by Ifi Amadiume in her influential ethnographic study of the Nnobi in Southeastern Nigeria is a reminder of the cross-cultural, trans-historical significance of some form of marriage in the establishment of some form of family as the foundation and guarantor of survival and stability of the social. Domestic happiness in the extended family of the Igbo context of the period in which the novel is set involves not only husband and wife, as in the nuclear family, but also the husband�s extended family relations. Analysing the gender dynamics of marriage is a focus of a vast number of feminist studies of African literature. Isidore Okpewho in �Understanding African Marriage: towards a Convergence of Literature and Sociology� contrasts the picture of marriage that occurs in African cultural expression, with marriage as it emerges in anthro-sociology. �Motherhood� is a concept that has come under intense scrutiny in the scholarship of African society and literature.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMoola,F . (2019).�Foundational fictions� Variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa�s early Anglophone-Igbo novels. In Adejunmobi,M & Coetzee,C. Routledge Handbook of African Literature.1st ed, p15. 9781315229546en_US
dc.identifier.issn9.78132E+12
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/7140
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.subjectConvergence of Literatureen_US
dc.subjectSouth Eastern Nigeriaen_US
dc.subjectCross-culturalen_US
dc.subjectIgboen_US
dc.title�Foundational fictions� Variations of the marriage plot in Flora Nwapa�s early Anglophone-Igbo novelsen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US

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