Black woman, indoctrination of the male, and subversion of the patriarchy in Ngugi’s Weep Not, Child

• Main Authors: Nasser Maleki,, Pedram Lalbakhsh,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2012
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5756/1/1685-3180-1-SM.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/5756/; http://www.ukm.my/ppbl/3L/3LHome.html

The present paper approaches Ngugi’s Weep Not, Child from a socialist feminist point of view to foreground women’s multi-dimensional oppression in the novel and to highlight their attempts to subvert it. While the male characters of the novel have received, more or less, enough attention the female...