Author Retains CopyrightOrovwuje, Eloise E. I2011-03-302022-10-252011-03-302022-10-2520012001https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/23604This thesis examines the links (both metaphorical and literal) between the notions of dis/placement (and its relation to identity), and text/narrative in Bessie Head's Maru and Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood -- both of which are pieces of autobiographical fiction. In critiquing each novel, it addresses three key points: how much Head and Emecheta's writings have been influenced by their real life preoccupations and experiences; how writing either offered them a place to belong, or displaced them; and how these issues involving writing and dis/placement are echoed within the novels themselves.pdfen-NZhttps://www.wgtn.ac.nz/library/about-us/policies-and-strategies/copyright-for-the-researcharchiveBessie HeadBuchi EmechetaAfrican fictionFeminism and literatureIdentity in literatureAfrican women authorsTextAll rights, except those explicitly waived, are held by the Author