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History and Definition of WomanismOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
This thesis conducts an in-depth investigation to examine the womanist attitude of the Kenyan female characters and how they are successfully able to subvert all challenges put in their way during the colonial, Emergency and postcolonial eras as exemplified in Ngugi Wa Thiongo’s Weep Not, Child (1964), A Grain of Wheat (1967) and Devil on the Cross (1982). Drawing upon Clenora Hudson-Weems’ Africana Womanism theory and its encompassing characteristics that are incarnated through the three selected novels, the study constructs the theoretical base that provides a profound understanding of Wa Thiongo’s attitude towards Kenyan women’s plight during the three chosen eras. Thus, the thesis articulates the writer’s Africana womanist vision through examining the tenets of Hudson-Weems’ Africana Womanism and their role in tackling Kenyan women’s dilemma within these periods of time.
Moreover, the thesis stresses the continuity in exemplifying the Africana womanist tenets in the three selected novels during the three chosen historical periods. In this respect, it provides a new image of Kenyan women who keep challenging all hardships for dismantling the conventional stereotype ascribed to them.