ABSTRACT:READING WOMANISM BEYOND CULTURAL HUMANISM: A LITERARY APPRAISAL OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

ABSTRACT:READING WOMANISM BEYOND CULTURAL HUMANISM: A LITERARY APPRAISAL OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

This study construes Womanism as a literary programming that is diversely assessed in many scholars’ works. The contribution of the various scholars to the understanding of the concept range in meaning from a radical stance to a more global vision of social life. The problem lies with how to evidence the concept as genderless and culturally and socially dialoguing praxes. The aim in this study is to compare and contrast womanism with humanism from the African and the British literary perspectives in order to open new vistas on the fertility of the concept in the assessment of human relations, institutional cooperation, the humanization of political relations as well as the environmental protection. The study uses postcolonial theory which focuses on human and institutional relations regardless of peculiarities to support responsibility as a way of ensuring a sustainable development. It has found that womanism and humanism go beyond political borderlines and lean on the quality of life and the sense of responsibility as the cornerstones for the achievement of social justice beyond race, gender, class and culture.

Keywords: Womanism, humanism, social conduct, responsibility, wholeness

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