LITERATURE AND LAW: A STUDY OF CHUMA NWOKOLO’S ONE MORE TALE FOR THE ROAD

Abstract

Should couples without biological children not be able to adopt children and live fulfilled and happy? Is it possible for an adopted child to be considered a ‘biological’ child by the parents and forbid the child from marrying a biological child of the same parents? Are we able to understand the legal implications of will as proposed by Ma’kanu and right as demonstrated by Kanu and Udeme? The fact of a mother insisting that her biological son and adoptive daughter could not marry is both normal and strange making the situation queer. The paper explored further possibilities for Queer Theory in a strange situation as the one the text treated. The method of approach to the critical evaluation of the phenomena of the text was largely deductive and inductive; however, quantitative evidences of opinions on whether an adopted child can marry a biological child of the adoptive family were presented.