عنوان

Betwixt and Between:

شماره

LA127275

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Betwixt and Between:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Negotiating Parental Abandonment and Family Life in Sade Adeniran's Imagine this

نام نخستين پديدآور

Yunusy Castory Ng'umbi

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Using African feminist and post-colonial theories, this paper examines the representation of the institution of family in Sade Adeniran's Imagine This, in order to explore the character's creation of a third space - one that is ambivalent and traumatic - in her context of divorce and family abandonment. As depicted in the narrative, a major reason behind such family tragedies is an overlap between patriarchy and the postcolonial state. Thus, through the protagonist's troubled identity and traumatic experience due to her family's dynamics, the narrative questions the role of a child in reconnecting fragmented family bonds. This heroine's traumatised hatred of her culture and of the institution of motherhood raises questions about the future of African feminism. If this ideology marginalises culture and renders motherhood as an institution no longer centrally important to contemporary African women, then it requires critical engagement. I explore how the literary genre inspired by African feminism enters established socio-cultural spaces critically and interrogates family dynamics ruthlessly. And I query whether it offers any solutions to the dilemmas of women that are uncovered and illuminated thereby. I will argue that the child protagonist in this narrative is presented not merely as a victim of circumstance - existing as she does betwixt and between family identities that are simultaneously familiar and strange - she is also depicted as attempting valiantly to reconnect the fragmented family bonds. Using African feminist and post-colonial theories, this paper examines the representation of the institution of family in Sade Adeniran's Imagine This, in order to explore the character's creation of a third space - one that is ambivalent and traumatic - in her context of divorce and family abandonment. As depicted in the narrative, a major reason behind such family tragedies is an overlap between patriarchy and the postcolonial state. Thus, through the protagonist's troubled identity and traumatic experience due to her family's dynamics, the narrative questions the role of a child in reconnecting fragmented family bonds. This heroine's traumatised hatred of her culture and of the institution of motherhood raises questions about the future of African feminism. If this ideology marginalises culture and renders motherhood as an institution no longer centrally important to contemporary African women, then it requires critical engagement. I explore how the literary genre inspired by African feminism enters established socio-cultural spaces critically and interrogates family dynamics ruthlessly. And I query whether it offers any solutions to the dilemmas of women that are uncovered and illuminated thereby. I will argue that the child protagonist in this narrative is presented not merely as a victim of circumstance - existing as she does betwixt and between family identities that are simultaneously familiar and strange - she is also depicted as attempting valiantly to reconnect the fragmented family bonds.

تاريخ نشر

2018

توصيف ظاهري

154-172

عنوان

Utafiti

شماره جلد

13/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2683-6408

اصطلاح موضوعی

African feminism

اصطلاح موضوعی

African Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

betwixt and between

اصطلاح موضوعی

divorce

اصطلاح موضوعی

family

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sade Adeniran

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sociology & Anthropology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Yunusy Castory Ng'umbi

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/26836408-01302009

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y