Exploiting the exploiter: some violations of society’s expectations in Beyond the Horizon and The Housemaid
This paper does a critical reading of Beyond the Horizon and The Housemaid and observes that the author, Amma Darko, seeks primarily to challenge prevailing and traditional views of motherhood held by African societies; i.e. motherhood and its associated activities such as caring, training and dis...
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ukm-84952016-12-14T06:47:20Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8495/ Exploiting the exploiter: some violations of society’s expectations in Beyond the Horizon and The Housemaid Marfo, Charles Ofosu Yeboah, Philomena Abeka Bonku, Lucy This paper does a critical reading of Beyond the Horizon and The Housemaid and observes that the author, Amma Darko, seeks primarily to challenge prevailing and traditional views of motherhood held by African societies; i.e. motherhood and its associated activities such as caring, training and disciplining. Amma Darko sharply condemns this view and calls for a critical analysis of the nature of motherhood, especially in contemporary times. Agreeing with Amma Darko and taking issues raised by her even a little further, with snippets from the books, the paper brings to the fore the fact that the prevailing and traditional views of motherhood have inherent conflict with reality. That is to say, these views are carelessly assumed as problemfree. Within this context, we also critically bring into discussion the running theme of exploiting the exploiter in the two books within the framework of gender studies and queer theory. We also generally question the fixed categories of paradigms generated by normative ideology and conclude with the realisation that almost all mothers (and, for that matter, exhibition of womanhood) in these novels failed because of the wrong choices they made, which were basically and largely fuelled by challenging economic conditions. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8495/1/7884-22956-1-PB.pdf Marfo, Charles Ofosu and Yeboah, Philomena Abeka and Bonku, Lucy (2015) Exploiting the exploiter: some violations of society’s expectations in Beyond the Horizon and The Housemaid. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 21 (1). pp. 35-46. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/index |
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This paper does a critical reading of Beyond the Horizon and The Housemaid and observes that the author,
Amma Darko, seeks primarily to challenge prevailing and traditional views of motherhood held by African
societies; i.e. motherhood and its associated activities such as caring, training and disciplining. Amma Darko
sharply condemns this view and calls for a critical analysis of the nature of motherhood, especially in
contemporary times. Agreeing with Amma Darko and taking issues raised by her even a little further, with
snippets from the books, the paper brings to the fore the fact that the prevailing and traditional views of
motherhood have inherent conflict with reality. That is to say, these views are carelessly assumed as problemfree.
Within this context, we also critically bring into discussion the running theme of exploiting the exploiter in
the two books within the framework of gender studies and queer theory. We also generally question the fixed
categories of paradigms generated by normative ideology and conclude with the realisation that almost all
mothers (and, for that matter, exhibition of womanhood) in these novels failed because of the wrong choices
they made, which were basically and largely fuelled by challenging economic conditions. |
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Marfo, Charles Ofosu Yeboah, Philomena Abeka Bonku, Lucy |
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Exploiting the exploiter: some violations of society’s expectations in Beyond
the Horizon and The Housemaid |
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the Horizon and The Housemaid |
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Exploiting the exploiter: some violations of society’s expectations in Beyond
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Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM |
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