A Feminist Reading of Selected Novels in Afan Oromo: A Study in Deconstruction
| dc.contributor.advisor | Matthewos, Phd Bcrhanu | |
| dc.contributor.author | Egere Mossissa, Teshome | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-16T06:56:52Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-05T13:48:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-16T06:56:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-05T13:48:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Or01110 creative writings are developing fasl. H owever, th e critical studies conducted are far beh ind. More speci ficall y, c ri tical studi es conducted in the area of port raya l of women arc not ex haustive. The objective of th is study is to critica lly examine four se lected novels in AFlI/ Oro1l10, namely Hmvwii (2003), Klll/saa Gadoo ( 1991 ), Illaa (2007), and Dhoksaa Jireeuyaa (201 I) from femini st perspecti ve. Textual analysis has been employed as it best fits to this study. Using tex tual analys is, contents of the texts or their structure and di scourse are closely examined. Feminist deconstructionist approach is used to analyze the selected novels. It is used to examine female characters in the selected novels with regard to notions such as a woman's body, subject/object, motherhood and knowledge. With respect to motherhood, most female characters are fou nd out to osc illate between the rewards of giving birth and its constrictio n, which deconstrllcrs notions of insti tution al motherhood. Fema le characters such as Chaltu , in lIIaa are shown to be mothers who assume both insti llitional motherhood and mothcrhood as a choice. Although body parts of female characters are dominant ly dep icted as object of gaze, under some situati ons, fema le characters use their body for surviva l lI nder difficul t li fe co ndi tions (Yadashi , in Kllllsaa Gadoo, Aster in Dhoksaa Jireeuyaa and Saartu in [I faa). Fema le characters are also fou nd out to osci ll ate in the continuum be tween subject and object because of economic, soc ial, cu ltural and institutional forces. As to knowledge, the not ion that assigns male characters to rati onal, knowledgeable and that ass igns female characte rs to irrational and nOllk nowkdge III pos ition is deconstructed and some fema le characters such as Yadash i in KULIsaa Cadoo, arc fOllnd out to win male characters, using an argument in the court of justice. Comparative analys is made has shown that in llIaa the novcl by female writer Rahima Johar femini st issues are valorized more as compared to the other novels by male authors. From the texts of male authors, Esayas' Hawwii attempts to give enough space to female characters than Abdi's Dhoksaa Jireenyaa and Gadissa's KULIsaa Cadoo. In the life of the female characters, the social and economic spaces are the causes for the psychi c space to be created in them which make them the center of multi ple contending forces. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/26149 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Afan Oromo: a Study in Deconstruction | en_US |
| dc.title | A Feminist Reading of Selected Novels in Afan Oromo: A Study in Deconstruction | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |