INVESTIGATING CHARACTERS’ INTENSE SUFFERING TO ORDINARY UNHAPPINESS IN BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE BRIDE PRICE AND THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD

This article investigates to what extent the characters' intense suffering become ordinary unhappiness in Buchi Emecheta's selected novels.This paper examines how Anglophone African Literature characters' intense suffering is manifested.Also, the focus will be on how the Igbo community depicted by Buchi Emecheta's The Bride Price and The Joys of Motherhood, contributes to transform the community members' intense suffering to ordinary unhappiness.The sociological, sociolinguistic and psychological approaches will be applied.The application of Freud's theory of 'hysterical misery into common unhappiness' will be mainly helpful in the analysis of the situation.