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Article: Madness in black women's writing. Reflections from four texts: a question of Power, the joys of Motherhood, Anowa and possessing the secret of joy.
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- Ahfad Journal
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- June 1, 2002
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There is a moral and intellectual responsibility to understand how and why women loose touch with reality and how this malady can be prevented. African and African American women writers have addressed the theme of madness in literary texts. This review paper looks at four texts: Bessie Head's "A question of Power", Buchi Emecheta's "The joys of Motherhood", Ama Ataa Aidoo's "Anowa" and Alice Walker's "Possessing the Secret of Joy". It attempts to define madness from a literary perspective and analyze the circumstances that lead to main protagonist's failure to cope with life and reality. The selected texts make it clear that madness is a common problem among African ...
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