RKDF University 3rd international conference , 2019
For centuries African women were exploited, neglected and treated as outsiders. A study of gender... more For centuries African women were exploited, neglected and treated as outsiders. A study of gender politics highlights and discloses the gender discrimination in Igbo community in Nigeria. Igbo community as a whole represents all the cultural communities in the world which follows patriarchy as a dominant form of gender differentiation. Achebe’s description of feminist prospect of Igbo community represents Nigeria and all the African nations as a whole. The focus on muscularity, socio cultural states of male and female, deprivation of rights of women based on various roles and gender discrimination is quite visible throughout the novel. Achebe’s things fall apart gives a textual view of the issues that were faced on the name of gender. Things fall apart as a novel alert the readers to actually question, who is actually responsible for abuse of women? Is it clearly the people of Igbo Tribe which are actual source of abuse or is it the writer Achebe, who is knowingly or unknowing encouraging the abuse? Moreover, the question that directed to gender politics is bound within the community or tribe or is it Achebe himself who is playing gender politics in his book? An attempt is made to focus on the consequences due to the absence of female principles that followed in Achebe’s friction. This paper attempts to unmask the issues that women had to face based on their gender, although the community believes in giving importance to women but fails to follow it .
RKDF University 3rd international conference , 2019
For centuries African women were exploited, neglected and treated as outsiders. A study of gender... more For centuries African women were exploited, neglected and treated as outsiders. A study of gender politics highlights and discloses the gender discrimination in Igbo community in Nigeria. Igbo community as a whole represents all the cultural communities in the world which follows patriarchy as a dominant form of gender differentiation. Achebe’s description of feminist prospect of Igbo community represents Nigeria and all the African nations as a whole. The focus on muscularity, socio cultural states of male and female, deprivation of rights of women based on various roles and gender discrimination is quite visible throughout the novel. Achebe’s things fall apart gives a textual view of the issues that were faced on the name of gender. Things fall apart as a novel alert the readers to actually question, who is actually responsible for abuse of women? Is it clearly the people of Igbo Tribe which are actual source of abuse or is it the writer Achebe, who is knowingly or unknowing encouraging the abuse? Moreover, the question that directed to gender politics is bound within the community or tribe or is it Achebe himself who is playing gender politics in his book? An attempt is made to focus on the consequences due to the absence of female principles that followed in Achebe’s friction. This paper attempts to unmask the issues that women had to face based on their gender, although the community believes in giving importance to women but fails to follow it .
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