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Female chauvinist and male patriarchs: a critical analysis of gender relations in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story
2017 •
Benon Tugume
This article examines gender relations in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story (henceforth Changes). The novel depicts a gender crisis among the educated and career-oriented women working in government offices in Accra. The focus is on women’s education, sexuality, marriage, and marital rape. The three women protagonists, Esi, Opokuya and Fusena, find the institution of marriage challenging and hold the view that it hampers their career development. Esi is highly educated compared to the other female characters. She is a female chauvinist, who feels too powerful to be controlled by a man. She finds herself in the most complicated situation in her marriage, because of her feminist views, which she acquired from Western education. Although she abhors the dominance of men over women, her sexuality naturally brings her into relationships with male patriarchs. Her views about love and marriage are superficial and irreconcilable with the realities of her society. She divorces her first ...
Space, Time and Empowerment in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes
Ibrahima Ndiaye
Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology
Thematizing Marriage in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple hibiscus: The Dynamics of Modern African Marriage Relationship
2021 •
andrew yankyerah
The task of this paper is to highlight some of the marriage relationship tendencies that have changed in the modern African Marriage, in relation to the traditional norms, as manifest in two texts of two African Feminist writers. The study thus examines how Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes and Chimamanda N. Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus explore the marriage institution in Africa and unearth the changing dynamics in it, as it pertains to the modern or post-modern African society. The study concluded that though the dignity of marriage coupled with its necessity as a social institution is unquestionably maintained in our focused African texts, its dynamics, in modern society, must yield to positive change, at least, to reflect the emerging socio-economic trends in African society today.
Asare-Kumi, Araba Ayiaba (2010). Defining the Ghanaian Feminist Novel: A Study of Ama Ata Aidoo's "Our Siter Killjoy" and "Changes" and Amma Darko's "Beyond the Horizon" and "Not Without Flowers". University of Ghana Legon, Accra, Ghana
DEFINING THE GHANAIAN FEMINIST NOVEL: A STUDY OF AMA ATA AIDOO’S "OUR SISTER KILLJOY" AND "CHANGES" AND AMMA DARKO’S "BEYOND THE HORIZON" AND "NOT WITHOUT FLOWERS".
2010 •
Araba Osei-Tutu
Narratives of Desire: Gender and Sexuality in Bugul, Aidoo and Chiziane
The changing faces of marriage in selected works by Anglophone and Francophone African women writers
2006 •
Odile Talon
This thesis explores representations of marriage in the works of Anglophone and Francophone African women writers. It presents a trajectory of such representations from the mid-1960s to the 1990s, and examines the various social, ideological and literary influences that have shaped these narratives of marriage. The introduction contextualises the study within existing critical scholarship on African women's writing and representations of marriage. From the evaluation of this literature, it identifies and states the thesis's problem and assumptions. It explores various theoretical perspectives on gender, feminism and nationalism as frameworks for analysis in the thesis. The body of the thesis makes connections between different contexts and periods of women's writing and between the different works of individual women writers. The first chapter focuses on the early works of Ama Ata Aidoo and Mariama Bâ, two pioneer writers from Anglophone and Francophone Africa. It examin...
East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences
Representations of “The New Woman” in Changes and Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo
Barbra Nyamwiza
This study explores the representations of “the new woman” in selected works by Ama Ata Aidoo, namely: Changes (1993), Our Sister Killjoy (1977), and Girl Who Can and Other Stories (1997). Ama Ata Aidoo addresses the conditions and needs of continental African women (African women who reside on the African continent) and points out key issues relating to discrimination and exclusion on the basis of sex and gender objectification, structural and economic inequality, power and oppression and gender roles and stereotypes. It reviews several studies carried out on works by Ama Ata Aidoo thus providing this study with the privilege of filling the gaps that were not addressed. It is finally noted that Aidoo does not agree with the view that the success of a woman should be gauged by her ability to get married and have children as emphasised by African tradition. To her, the success of women does not lie in their ability to reproduce but rather in becoming productive in other aspects that ...
UNIVERSITY OF GHANA IDENTIFY TWO KEY ISSUES DEALT WITH IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN LITERATURE. DISCUSS THESE ISSUES WITH REFERENCE TO HOW THEY ARE TREATED IN AT LEAST THREE BOOKS BY AFRICAN WRITERS
Princess Lawer
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (RAEI)
RAEI General Issue -January 2022
2022 •
Remedios Perni
Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses is published biannually by the University of Alicante’s Department of English Studies. Since its creation in 1988, its aim has been to provide a forum for debate and an outlet for research involving all aspects of English studies, particularly in those areas of knowledge encompassing linguistic, literary and cultural studies of the English-speaking world. The journal, available online and in paper, is open to original and unpublished articles and book reviews, which can be submitted all year long and must be drafted in English.
INTERVIEW ON FEMINISM
Tata Kourouma
