RECONSTRUCTION AND SELF-LIVING IN TONI MORRISON'S SULA AND AKACHI ADIMORA-EZEIGBO'S TRAFFICKED

Undeniable link exists between Afro-American and African literature. Distance and acculturation perform individualistic designs for the uniqueness of self and society. Behavioral and psychological modes shape the lives of people and give them their individual characters. Man is not isolated from his society though certain practices create gender bias. Experiences translate lives just as there are personality traits. Situations call for reconstruction of feminine gender's deprivation, dissatisfaction and depression. Sense, sensibility and habit shape lives just as experiences remain the best for the intelligibility. Progression and survival become matters of per on a! decision hence different modes of personal living by different people. Reconstruction attracts positive reactions, attitudes and endeavors and mod require effective communication e to be achieved. This paper verifies reconstruction and self living in both Afro-American and African literature. The approach is the critical and interpretative discourse of Toni MIorrison's Sula and Akachi Adimora-Ezcigbo's Trafficked being works of two female authors from America and Nigeria. s is mainly on the female major characters. The theoretical framework is the Feminist Literary Theory. The discourse reflects female experiences, decisions and aftermath as in personal living; girlhood. friendship and self-accomplishment; marriage, reconstruction and self-living.