La reapropiación de la maternidad en la obra de Ama Ata Aidoo
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Gil Naveira, Isabel
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2016
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Archivum: Revista de la Facultad de Filología ISSN 0570-7218 Nº 66, 2016, pags. 107-136
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The image of the African mother offered by the first male African writers, rather than showing the truth about motherhood, contributes to the promotion of a negative image for women, whose identity as individuals depend on their role as mothers. Female African writers, such as Ama Ata Aidoo, have fought since the 1960s against the use of this role as a political and social tool; they have shown how the image of 'Mother Africa' only subdues African women. This paper studies the different concepts of motherhood that Aidoo establishes and how the Ghanaian author reappropriates motherhood in her works