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dc.contributor.authorMoolla, Fiona. F
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-14T10:14:13Z
dc.date.available2022-02-14T10:14:13Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationMoolla, F. F. (2020). Eros and Self-Realization: Zora Neale Hurston’s Janie and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru . Utopian Studies, 26(1), 29–48. https://doi.org/10.5325/langhughrevi.26.1.0029en_US
dc.identifier.issn1045-991X
dc.identifier.uridoi: 10.5325/langhughrevi.26.1.0029
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/7246
dc.description.abstractA comparative analysis of Zora Neale Hurston’s Teir Eyes Were Watching God and Flora Nwapa’s Efuru suggests the importance of romantic love to the self actualization of the heroines of these novels, whose authors share similar biog raphies, concerns, and literary positions in the spheres of African American and African literatures respectively. For Hurston, eros paradoxically represents the ultimately unfulfilled possibility for self-realization that finally may be achieved only in and through the self. By contrast, for Nwapa, the focus shifts from the centrality of romantic love to the complex and contradictory place of childbear ing in female self-realization. However, finally, self-actualization is achieved with other women in identification with Mammywater, the powerful Igbo lake goddessen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe Pennsylvania State Universityen_US
dc.subjectTheir Eyes Were Watching Goden_US
dc.subjectEfuruen_US
dc.subjectRomantic loveen_US
dc.subjectFemale self-realizationen_US
dc.subjectAfrican American literatureen_US
dc.subjectAfrican literatureen_US
dc.titleEros and Self-Realization: Zora Neale Hurston’s Janie and Flora Nwapa’s Efuruen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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