'Adding wisdom to their natures': British colonial educational practices and the possibility of women's personal emancipation in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Buchi Emecheta's Joys of motherhood and Tsitsi Dangrembga's Nervous conditions

Popular opinion suggests that education is the 'silver bullet' to end poverty, famine, and all the worlds' ills. The reality of education for women, however, is not as easily classified as transformative. This paper seeks to illuminate, through historical research and literary analysi...

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Main Author: McIntyre, Megan
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2009
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2093
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3092&context=etd