An Analysis of Differences, Major Themes, Styles and Use of Language in Emecheta, Kincaid, Walker and Ba
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2020-12-07
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Department of English, Nasarawa State University keffi.
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When there are similarities, there must be differences, the selected texts share elements of differences to some extent. The selected novels under study were written between 1976 - 1982. For instance, The Joys of Motherhood was written in 1979, The Autobiography of my Mother was written in 1976, The Color purple was written in 1982, and So long a letter was written in 1979. Thus, two of the texts The Joys of Motherhood and So Long a Letter Are African novels written in the same year, while two of the texts The Color Purple and The Autobiography of my Mother are American novels written in different yea
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Ba, Mariama. So Long a Letter. Nairobi: East African educational publishers, 1981. Caruth, Cathy Unclaimed Experience: Trauma Narrative, and History. Bitimer: John’s Hopkins University Press, 1996. Print. Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. London: Hcinemann. 1979. Print. Kirpatrick, E. M. Chambels Universal Learner's Dictionaryx International Students’ Edition 1986. Kincaid, Jamaica. The Autobiography of My Mother. New York: Plume Books, 1996. Print. The Holy Quran. Walker, Alice The Color Purple. London: Phoenix. 1982. Print.