Stories of women: Gender and narrative in the postcolonial nation (2025)

Encountering Postcoloniality: An Exploration of Ngugi’sWeep Not, Child

The article is a study of the ways in which NgugiwaThiong’odeals with the colonial condition in Kenya during the Emergency in his first published novel Weep Not, Child. As it is shown in the article, Ngugi representsa desperate attempt made by the postcolonial athomito discover “alternate” (feminine) spaces of resistance to repression. This quest comes afterthe desolate realisation of the athomithat the “main” (masculine) spaces of resistance are curbed or obliterated by colonialism. Exploring Ngugi’s work with reference to other contemporary discourses concerning Gikuyuwomen and land tenure, the study locates both regressive and progressive potentials in Weep Not, Child. Keywords: NgugiwaThiong’o, postcolonial, Weep Not, Child.

Subversion of Hegemonic Gender Perspectives as a Means to Postcolonial Authenticity in Ngugi‟s Petals of Blood and Ogbu‟s The Moon Also Sets

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science

The African Women’s Powers Promotion in Male Dominated Societies in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood and Peter Abraham’s A Wreath for Udomo

Djossou K. Alfred, 2022

The present paper examines the African women’s powers promotion system as described in three inspiring novels by male writers. It highlights the real positions of women in African societies far from their common degrading roles wrongly assigned in some male writings. This is done through a critical analysis of the novels, Things Fall Apart (1958), Petals of Blood (1986) and A Wreath for Udomo (1956), all classics. In these novels, women are portrayed in some ways, so that self-aware of their powers, knowledgeable persons, skilled and spiritually ordained to have their words reckoned in their community with no haughtiness. Based on the natural powers of women in African societies depicted in the novels, the paper tries to demonstrate the pivotal roles of women, by the help of theories like postcolonial, feminism and psychoanalysis, contrary to the general lens women have been heard, seen and perceived.

Nationhood and Women in Postcolonial African Literature

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 2010

The Quest for Identity of the Doubly Marginalized Women in the Post-Colonial Society: A Study of Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People

Writers Editors Critics (WEC), 2013

The quest for self-identity is a creative human tendency which leads to the discovery of different traditions and cultures that constitute the bulk of all civilizations. We aspire to locate our own position in our society and the world. We have discovered all the nooks and crannies of the earth and now are trying to explore the undiscovered cultures and traditions of the world through literature because it brings forward to us ‘its long reach into every nook and corner of every writer’s experience and imagining’ (Home 105). In the light of various literary and cultural theories, new vistas of the cultural landscapes have opened up to enrich our understanding of life and the world. The postcolonial theory, for instance, has made the world re-think about their prejudiced views on the African and Oriental arts and culture. Now the world has become all the more enriched with their music, literature and cultural heritage. The feminist perspectives have been instrumental in recovering the stories of the women hitherto unheeded to the world. In the context of African literature, one can, more relevantly, use both the postcolonial and the feminist perspectives to interpret the condition of the life of a woman.

Speaking Centre Stage: Storytelling and the Postcolonial African

Journal of International Women's Studies Unbending Gender Narratives in African Literature

Daddy’s Girls?: Father-Daughter Relations and the Failures of the Postcolonial Nation-State in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Véronique Tadjo’s Loin de mon père

Ariel: A Review of International English Literature , 2013

THE KNACK OF NARRATION: A POST-COLONIAL CRITIQUE IN NGUGI WA THIONG'O'S WEEP NOT, CHILD

Longturim , 2021

The downfall of the European colonialism in the African and Asian colonies was not the end of the colonial hegemony, but the beginning of indirect imperial policies. In a unique narrative style, Ngugi has creatively fictionalized his anti-colonial stand through creating characters with Kenyan names to voice his resistance to colonization. The methodology of this study is descriptive analysis. The paper analyzes critically Ngugi's novel Weep Not, Child and shows how he implemented different narrative techniques (e.g. free indirect narration, freewheeling narrative technique, and author surrogate) to depict the atrocities and aftermath of colonization. It explicates how Ngugi uses narration to liberate gradually the minds of his people and their land from the settlers through the decolonial styles of peaceful struggle and focus on education. Specifically, the paper elaborates how Ngugi, like many other post-colonial writers, resisted and challenged the neo-imperial forms over the previous colonies in the neo-colonial era. Ngugi's novel sheds light on the impacts of colonialism which affected negatively not only Kenya, but also all the colonized nations.

"Postcolonial Representations: Women, Literature, Identity"

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