Emerging at Intersections: Femininity, Agency, and Becoming in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood and Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter

Published around the same period (Emecheta’s novel is 1979; Ba’s is 1980), The Joys of Motherhood and So Long a Letter both originate from the western part of Africa, though they belong to differen...

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Women s Studies
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2026-09-21
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2026.2731217
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Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
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Emerging at Intersections: Femininity, Agency, and Becoming in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood and Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter

Sosthenes Nnamdi Ekeh
Women s Studies
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
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Emerging at Intersections: Femininity, Agency, and Becoming in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood and Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter

Sosthenes Nnamdi Ekeh
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Published around the same period (Emecheta’s novel is 1979; Ba’s is 1980), The Joys of Motherhood and So Long a Letter both originate from the western part of Africa, though they belong to differen...

Women s Studies
University of Nigeria (NG), University of Alberta (CA)
Gender equality
Openalex Percentile: Top 2%
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
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Emerging at Intersections: Femininity, Agency, and Becoming in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood and Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter — Sosthenes Nnamdi Ekeh · Women s Studies (2026) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS