NEW322H1 Lecture Notes - African Literature, Intertextuality, Virilization
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Idealization: there is this idea that the colonial violence is about the emasculation of african men and women are already emasculated. Women"s writing began to take place i the early 60 and 70s and women weren"t given the chance to participate until then. The study of african literature and the criticisms of. African literature were all fostered by men as well. What we then have is a patriarchal literary environment that emerges and leaves the women out which then defines the way women can be in the society. We get a silence of female presence and experience in literature. The ubiquitous tropes that we would read in males novels: Patriarchy: we will express patriarchy shaped in different ways. Males will dominate females and older men will dominate younger men. Through this ideology, we have often contradictory images of women that emerge. For example: we have women as the life-givers, equating women with earth.
