Postcolonial feminist discourse in Flora Nwapa'swomen are different
Articles > Article · 2002
Authors: Fatma Rezzan SİLKÜ
World Literature Written in English, International, 2002, vol 40, pp 125-135
DOI: 10.1080/17449850208589380
Summary
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin point out the similarity between feminist and postcolonial theories with regard to their “experience of the , politics of oppression and repression” (249). As part of their decolonizing strategies, African women writers create a language of their own to secure their liberation from oppressive means of colonization and patriarchy. This paper, then, with reference to the views of postcolonial and feminist critics such as Ania Loomba, Ketu H. Katrak, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, aims to discuss how Flora Nwapa in Women are Different challenges the hegemony of dominant patriarchal ideologies by employing an alternative feminist discourse. Nwapa represents Nigerian women in the nation‐building process as historical subjects aware of the past, yet willing to change and contribute to the development of a postcolonial Nigeria.