Patriarchy and Women’s Resistance in Maissa Bey’s Hizya (2015), Malika Mokeddem’s L’interdite (1993) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003)
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2020
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
This dissertation, we covers the matters of patriarchy and women resistance in the Algerian and Nigerian societies through the works of Maissa Bey’s Hizya (2015), Malika Mokeddem’s L’interdite (1993) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003). Our intention is to demonstrate how male domination, patriarchal oppressions and violence can affect women physically and psychologically. With the use of Bell Hooks’ Theory Feminism Is for Everybody (2000), we want to show how the victimized women struggle for their rights and freedom. This work is divided into three chapters; each dealing with the female characters of the three books. In the first chapter, entitled ‘Male Domination and Gender Consciousness’, we have analyzed the way women are subordinated by men and the fact that these women are conscious about their inferiority, which is shown through the different female characters. The second chapter with the title ‘Violence and Women Victimization’, we have attempted to show the difficulties and the hard living conditions of women who endure pain either from their husbands, families or societies. In the last chapter ‘Patriarchal Oppression versus Women Resistance’, we have tried to show how women use resistance to escape from the patriarchal oppressions. Finally, it can be noticed that, the three writers Maissa Bey, Malika Mokeddem and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie have given voice to their female characters in order to denounce the injustices and discrimination that women face in the Algerian and Nigerian societies
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30cm ; 61p.
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Patriarchy, Gender Consciousness, Violence, Victimization, Resistance.
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Littérature et Approche Interdisciplinaire