Kwara State University
Saeedat ALIYU
Designation: Senior Lecturer
Department: Linguistics African and European Languages
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| 1 | Responding from the fringe: Women, Islam, and patriarchy in Nigerian Muslim Women’s Novels |
Discourse on gender relations affirm that there are entrenched practices and beliefs in societies which restrict women and subvert opportunities open to them. These practices are more emphasized in many African societies especially as the African woman’s access to the agency of representation was much later; decades after African literature was established and populated by male writers. This resulted in the foregrounding of many negative stereotypes about femaleness in early African literature. The African Muslim woman seems doubly challenged; her gender and the selective and often times over application or misapplication of the tenets of Islam in matters concerning her combine to reinforce her subjugation. The initial resistance to Western education, and its inability to penetrate and make significant impact in the already established Islamic societies of Northern Nigeria may have added to the slower response of women writers who write in English to emerge and take ownership of the agency to depict themselves, especially when compared to their male counterpart or other female writers in the larger Nigerian society. Tanure Ojaide (181) opines that the cultural and religious inhibitions prominent in the region contribute to the reluctance of the educated Northern woman to express her individual feelings on paper in English for the public to read. | Aliyu, S.B. | ISBN: 978-0-367-36834-0 | Routledge Handbook on Minority Discourses in African Literature. Ojaide, Tanure (University of North Carolina, USA) & Joyce Ashuntantang (University of Hartford, Connecticut) (eds.) | 2020-01-01 | ||