Tracing Personal Expansion Reading Selected Novels As Modern African Bildungsrom

How Can Africans Escape The Control Of The Complex Power Relationships Established During Colonization And Successfully Achieve Self-development? More Importantly, And The Primary Concern Of This Book, Can African Female Characters Ever Hope To Arrive At Such Individuation Given The Dual Challenges Of The Power Structures Defined And Enforced By European Colonizers And The Patriarchal Structures That Contort Issues Related To Gender? Tracing Personal Expansion Reads Late 20th Century Works By African Female Novelists Buchi Emecheta, Tsitsi Dangarembga, And Calixthe Beyala As Modern Bildungsromane, Novels Of Self-development, To Reveal The Dynamics, Complexities, And Challenges The Characters And Authors Experience.