A Survey of Dearth and Trend of Female Literary Writing in English from the Northeast Nigeria

Bibliographic Data

ID22154940
AuthorsMuhammad Dahiru (Yobe State University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume7
Issue2
Pages163-174
Publication date2022-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2456-7620 • E-ISSN: 2456-7620
PublisherAI Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.22161/ijels.72.21
OpenAlexW4225602331
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited8

There is an apparent paucity of literary works written by women in English from the northern vis-à-vis southern part of Nigeria in the corpus of the country’s literature. Adopting a mixed-method approach, this paper surveys availability or dearth of female writers in the northern region by focusing on the three north-eastern states of Borno, Yobe, and Gombe states. Quantitative and qualitative approaches, through questionnaires and interviews, and Consensus Workshop, through Focus Group Discussions (FGD), are administered to gather the data for the discussion. The paper found a dearth of women writers in the northeast region and concludes that readership, publication opportunities, level of education, and social choices of the medium of expression are among the factors responsible for the dearth. The paper also found a recurrent motif of love, family, and marriage as the thematic and stylistic complexities of the available female work of fiction that follow theSoyayya trend. Possible amenable measures, which include organizing competitions and book projects, are proffered as recommendations

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