The Images of Women in Nibut and Yederasiwa File
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2012-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Traditionally, women have been relegated to the margins of society, history and
culture in male-dominated environment. Patriarchal systems have long denied
women to play an appropriate role in nation building and to enter the public
sphere.
The representation of female characters in fictions by female writers is different
from that of men owning to the fact that they have different life experiences.
Both the novels that have been selected for the analysis, Nibut and Yederasiwa
File, are written by female Ethiopian writers.
The aim of this thesis is to examine and analyze the images of women in the
works of Ethiopian female writers.
The paper is divided into five chapters. Chapter one deals with the background,
statement of the problem, objectives, significance, methodology and scope. The
second chapter presents a review of related literature. In this section, an
attempt has been made to review material related to this study. In the third
chapter, an attempt has been made to explain the conceptual framework which
focuses on Socialist feminist literary theory that has been applied in this study.
In the fourth chapter, the selected novels have been examined and analyzed
using the framework discussed in chapter three. The writer of this research has
found out that the writers of the selected novels have tried to reverse the
traditional stereotypical portrayal of women by giving the major female
characters the face of the New Woman which is characterized by being
intelligent, educated, self-reliant, etc. On the other hand, it has also been
observed that the female characters are exposed to sexual abuses and
harassments, and also are victims of traditional gender roles that have long
been established by patriarchal dominated society. Then, the final chapter is
the conclusion. In this section a brief summary and some findings have been
given.
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Women in Nibut and Yederasiwa File