Fatherhood: A Portrayal of Single Parenthood in Helon Habila’s Measuring Time (original) (raw)

2020

Abstract

Single parenting has become a challenge in the African society today. A single parent could be a male or female who for some reason is having the sole responsibility of taking care of children in the family. There have been various literary studies on single parenting, however, most of these studies have focused on the dilemmas of single mothers. Therefore, there is a need to evaluate the experiences of single fathers. This study examines the portrayal of a father as a single parent in Helon Habila’s Measuring Time . This was to enable the researcher to identify the effects of single parenting in the selected text and to explore the coping strategies of both the father and the children. The study employed the tripartite model of father involvement to do a textual analysis in order to assess the effectiveness of the protagonist’s role as a father. The findings of the study revealed that the cause of the protagonist’s single parenthood is widowhood. His fathering styles have both nega...

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