... Sula and the subsequent damage done to their relationship as a result of the various factors inhibiting their ability to form a relationship based on intersubjectivity. Bonded together and in many ways fused in girlhood, Sula and Nel cannot maintain a friendship beyond adolescence because of the ways...

.... Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 #BBOG Bring Back Our Girls girlhood hawkers Nigeria salvation Chibok Driving across Lagos’s Third Mainland Bridge with some friends in the middle of January 2017, I found myself involved in a debate of sorts. Three of us believed that one thousand days...

... of the sovereign interior, Walker’s southern daughters move from constraining girlhoods to fuller, more capacious womanhoods; they become better equipped to navigate the patriarchy and racism informing their intimate relationships. Indicative of the social pathologies that Walker dissects within...

... protagonist’s internal struggles to navigate her own identity within the stifling presence of familial and cultural histories. In addition, an interplay of document and narrative is central to experimental texts like Norma Elia Cantú’s ( 1995 ) “fictional autobioethnography,” Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood...