Abstract
A Quest for the Self and Identity in Two West African Autobiographies: Mary Ashun’s Tuesday’s Child and Helene Cooper’s the House at Sugar Beach
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Extant research to date, albeit limited, have defined autobiography as a story that details events, achievements, disappointments, griefs, the confidential and even failures through the course of the narrator’s life
Through retrospection and remembering the past, the writer is able to purge himself of his pains, joys, disappointments, failures, successes, achievements, desires and to come to terms with those aspects of his life that hitherto, had proven difficult or impossible for him to accept as part of his life story (Ebila, 2015; Man, 2012; Nadu, 2018; Samir Mohammad Ahmad, 2019)
Even with the account given by her mother, Ashun gives Nana a larger than life role to portray her as an indomitable human being who is always in control of affairs and cannot be shaken. It is in this regard that when she accepts who she is and finds her ‘self’ and her identity as a Ghanaian, she links that realization to the role Nana has played in her life to bring her to that point
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In-Text Citation: (Dankwa, 2021) To Cite this Article: Dankwa, A. A Quest for the Self and Identity in Two West African. Autobiographies: Mary Ashun’s Tuesday’s Child and Helene Cooper’s the House at Sugar Beach. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 10(3), 275–285.
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