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Lugano, Rose Sau.

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The portrayal of the girl child in selected African female Bildungsromane.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The portrayal of the girl child in selected African female Bildungsromane./
作者:	Lugano, Rose Sau.
面頁冊數:	245 p.
附註:	Adviser: Thomas A. Hale.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-04A.
標題:	Literature, African. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3172988
ISBN:	9780542106118

The portrayal of the girl child in selected African female Bildungsromane.
Lugano, Rose Sau.

The portrayal of the girl child in selected African female Bildungsromane. - 245 p.

Adviser: Thomas A. Hale.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2005.

This study is a comparative analysis of the African female Bildungsroman, or novel of growth and development. The study traces the textual construction of identity in selected texts by male and female authors writing in English and Swahili languages. The selected texts are: Said Ahmed Mohamed's Utengano, Suleiman Mohamed Suleiman's Nyota ya Rehema, Euphrase Kezilahabi's Rosa Mistika, Clara Momanyi's Tumaini, Buchi Emecheta's The Bride Price, and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions. By examining the complex interplay of culture, race, gender, historical context, and religious ideology, I reveal how these factors combine to condition the Bildung, or personal formation, of the protagonists. The study is an attempt to show how the nature of the female quest for personal development departs from the model established in the eighteenth century by Goethe in his Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship) , the prototype of the genre. While the patriarchal structures within many African societies seem to favor the development of the boy child, they become impediments to the girl child's quest for selfhood. Her search for self-actualization often opposes societal expectations, thus pitting her personal aspirations against those imposed by her society.

ISBN: 9780542106118Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022872
Literature, African.

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