'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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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 |