THE PREMISES OF SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM IN BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE SLAVE GIRL AND THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD

Abstract

Literature remains an important part of every society
because of its didactic and aesthetic functions. From the preliterature era to the present, literature is still as a source with
which to appreciate human creativity and burden to look at human
experiences and actions, more critically, satirically and sometimes,
pleasurably. Literature has the ability to stimulate human
consciousness to reality and points to human folies. Through the
major forms of literature, writers of all ages have been able to
capture the social, political and cultural moods and experiences of
their societies.