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Abstract
The second chapter will concentrate on Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy. The analysis will render Aidoo as a nationalist writer whose main aim is to ensure the survival of her nation. Aidoo in this novel links feminist oppression with the wider social issue of inequality existing between one race and the other, rich people and poor people. Aidoo has noted that the idea of nationalism has been used by new
The thesis bas four chapters each one of which deals with a separate phase in postcolonial African feminism. The first chapter will provide the theoretical background information needed. It will be divided into three sections. The first section will expound on the concepts of post colonialism and postcolonial feminism underlining the differences between ’white’ feminism and African feminism. The second section will elaborate on the different feminisms existing in African literature, situating the selected writers each in her context. The third section will deal with the development of the idea of nationalism from Fanon (decolonization) till the present time (globalization).
I The thesis aims at examining the problems tackled by African I women writers from the early period of decolonization till• the present I
I time. Three African women writers from three different countries are I
chosen: Ama Ata Aidoo (Our Sister Killjoy 1977) from Ghana, Violet I Barungi (Cassandra 1999) from Uganda and Tsitsi Dangarembga (The I Book of Not 2006) from Zimbabwe. These writers reflect the different I issues tackled by African women writers at different periods of time. I
Aidoo reflects the quest of women to find a role in national movements. I
Barungi reflects the indulgence of African writers in their own problems I
and Dangarembga represents the return of the cry for a national role. I I