Transcending patriarchal border and self-empowerment in sefi atta’s everything good will come
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2020
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Oum-El-Bouaghi
Abstract
Though women started struggling for their rights since the late of the nineteenth century
under the so called feminist movement, till our recent time, patriarchy is still practiced
and persistent practice in today's societies. In androcentirc societies, women are subject
to an array of blind treatments of men. They are domesticated, thingified, objectified,
and robbed off their identities. Since their identity is constructed within the parameters
of society, women are denied every opportunity to be equal to men. Likewise, African
females attempt to follow the path of the previous feminist movements by starting to
remove the restrictions and oppression of their societies. Hence, the aim of this study is
to offer a feminist reading to Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come. It aims at
underlying the different injustices of the Nigerian patriarchy and its working on the
protagonist's and other females' consciousness. The novel's protagonist, Enitan, goes
through various patterns of subjugation and marginalization. The study traces on the
different facets of submission and subordination female characters endure in their
journey of self-becomingness commenting on the empowerment strategies and
mechanisms used to subvert and defy societal conventions. Subsequently, Enitan, along
with other female characters, grows to be the self-assertive and non-conformist woman
who no longer accepts to be confined and to abide by the gender roles assigned to her.
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feminism, Patriarchy, Women empowerment, Female subjugation : oppression