Women’s Withheld Subjectivity in Elichi Amadi’s The Concubine (1966) and Lynn Nottage’s Ruined (2007)
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2017-11
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University Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
This research paper aims at comparing women’s withheld subjectivity in two African works
namely Elichi Amadi’s The Concubine (1966) and Lynn Nottage’s Ruined (2007). We have
selected Mary Wollstonecraft’s feminist theory as explained in her essay A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman since some of its concepts suit to the subject treated. Within the novel and
the play, the matter of women’s subordination is clearly demonstrated where the authors
depicted the way women have been dominated by the harsh government led by men with the
strict rules of the patriarchal societies. The first chapter is an attempt to prove how women
resist and react to the cultural and masculine system of thought and literature and to the way
women try to emancipate their identity, a vigorous action to challenge the power of men. In
the second chapter, we have selected the theme of women’s right for equality which would be
realized through education and the rejection of emotions by using rational thoughts as a
solution to abolish the battle of gender discrimination.
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52p.;30cm.(+cd)
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Arts dramatiques et lettres anglaises.