No longer green: Female characters of African descent as sex workers in Chika Unigwe’s OnBlack Sisters’ Street (2009) and Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon (1995)

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dc.contributor.authorMakokha, Gloria Ajami
dc.contributor.authorMuhia, Mugo
dc.contributor.authorObura, Oluoch
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-04T12:33:27Z
dc.date.available2024-07-04T12:33:27Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionArticlesen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the potentialities of diaspora as conveniently structured to demonstrate the emancipatory potential of migration for women in Chika Unigwe’s OnBlack Sisters’ Street (2009)and Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon (1995). Sex and sexual intercourse between men and women in the African societies that are fictionalised in these texts are not only an issue about morality, but also about how morality is governed and policed within these societies. While the societies in these texts hope to derive their integrity through women’s sexual purity, conflict arises when such communal integrity fails to recognise the individual circumstances of the female individuals upon whom such notions of purity rest. The question of what role sex and sexual practices play in upholding the honour of communities is a vexed one. While the societies that the texts explore here show less scrutiny on marital sex, regardless of whether it is consensual or forced, these societies occupy a judgmental pedestal on pre-marital and extra-marital sex. Harsher judgement, however, is reserved for individuals who engage in these practices for monetary gain. This textual analysis is informed by the postcolonial theory, as articulated by Homi Bhabha and his postulations on identity and ‘othering’en_US
dc.identifier.citationMakokha, G. A., Muhia, M., & Obura, O. (2022). No longer green: Female characters of African descent as sex workers in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street (2009) and Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon (1995). Research Journal in Advanced Humanitiesen_US
dc.identifier.issn2708-5953
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/28413
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoyallite Global.en_US
dc.subjectAfrican descenten_US
dc.subjectdiasporaen_US
dc.subjectfemale charactersen_US
dc.subjecthomeen_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.subjectimmigrantsen_US
dc.subjectsex workersen_US
dc.titleNo longer green: Female characters of African descent as sex workers in Chika Unigwe’s OnBlack Sisters’ Street (2009) and Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon (1995)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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