Maternal Oppression of the Girl-Child in Selected Novels by Buchi Emecheta

Abstract

This paper examines the roles that women, especially mothers, play in the pains that their daughters suffer in the home. Knowingly or otherwise, mothers often, cause their female children untold suffering during their growing up years. Consequently, the degree of suffering of the girl-child at the hands of her mother or mother figure is often, directly responsible for the kind of up-bringing that she metes out to her own girl-child or female children under her care. It is therefore towards the exposition of this otherwise hidden reality about the up bringing of the female child that this paper is committed.