Women Rewriting History and Writing a Literary Tradition

Abstract

"Women Rewriting History and Writing a Literary Tradition" is a work that shows interest in the novel written in western languages by postcolonial Africana female writers, who write to re-examine the history of Africana women, which was either forgotten or distorted in existing accounts about it. In fact, this doctoral project is a critical evaluation of three novels, two continental: The Joys of Motherhood by the Nigerian Buchi Emecheta and La femme sans sépulture by the Algerian Assia Djebar and a novel from the diaspora,Possessing the Secret of Joy by the African American Alice Walker. The three novels are selected as samples for a case study aimed to explore the motivations, aspirations and challenges of this novel. This research project is a comparative contrastive study woven into the textual analysis of these three representative works, and focused on demonstrating the intertextual relations between them.