Articles tagged "Efuru"

The Psycho-Spiritual Journey of an Igbo Androgyny: Efuru’s Quest for Her Higher Self in Efuru, Flora Nwapa’s Eponymous Novel

By Ada Uzoamaka Azodo

May 21, 2020

Efuru’s1 Psycho-Spiritual Journey in Flora Nwapa’s eponymous novel, Efuru, retraces Maureen Murdoch’s The Heroine’s Journey, a gendered modification of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey,2 which is a cyclical and archetypal …