iarjelIARJELIARJEL2708-5120https://doi.org/10.47310/iajel.2022.v03i01.010Mother versus Woman: a Study of Amma Darko’s Faceless as Interpretative FictionUcheNnyaguNgoziJacintaOzohDepartment of English, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, AwkaA good work of art is that which educates while it entertains: it serves as a mirror through which hidden things are exposed for the sake of education. Literature writers write based on what happens around them and gifted writers make their works realistic, devoid of unnecessary exaggerations so that their works serve effectively as a true representation of their societies. Amma Darko falls under this category of authors with her Faceless, a realistic literature. The novel is studied as an apt representation of the author’s society and as such, it has attracted attention from many critics who explore the work using varied approaches. It is decodable from the novel that motherhood is different from womanhood so the researchers have adopted the feministic approach to parse the work and make the realistic message of the author vivid.