Between Resistance and Survival: Feminist and Womanist Consciousness in The Joys of Motherhood and Purple Hibiscus

Author(s)	Ms. Sanobar Haque
Country	India
Abstract	Abstract: Adichie and Emecheta stand in a large and stubborn queue of West African women authors who are dedicated to the feminist values and anchors of their rights. They write with care and precision for the women, highlight their misery, and advocate their voice. Human survival matters and so does female autonomy, but both of these are not a lonely project that has been cut from the social bonds. These novels insist on cooperation, endurance, and on staying alive, together. The study not just traces the similarity of gender tropes in both the novels, Purple Hibiscus and The Joys of Motherhood, but it also focuses on their differences. These writers do not come from the same background; belonging to different generations, they exhibit different pressures and urgencies. The current study analyses the shared ethical commitments, especially in confronting the human suffering in general, with no turning away from the gender’s point as well. It also pays equal attention to variation of how each of these two novelist images womanism in her own way. There is similar continuity of course in these writers but sometimes they frozen and shift, bends and grows.
Keywords	Key words: Feminist values, Rights, Gender tropes and Womanism
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On	2026-03-11

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