The three novels are Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood,. (1979, 1981), Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter (1981) and Sembene Ousmane's. God's Bits of Wood (1970). The rationale for the choice of the novels are as follows: Emecheta's novel represents
imply that the Lacanian subject can be understood as resulting from a metaphor. ... another metaphor can be constructed (though Lacan does not appear to ...