The Image of Women in Sisay Nigusu's Novels
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2009-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Many AAU undergraduate and graduate students of ILS attempted to examine
the image of women characters in Amharic novels from Feminist critics' point of
view. However, except one, none attempted to thoroughly deal with a s ingle
author works at different periods to find out whether a writer has followed a
consistent trend or shows a variation in his portrayal of women. Besides many of
the studies done on Amharic literary works based on Feminist literary criticism
seem lack of depth in applying the theory.
The aim of this study is to analyze the portrayal of women characters in three
selected Amharic novels written by Sisay Nigusu from a Feminist critic's point of
view. The selected novels for the discussion are Girdosh (The Curtain) (1989),
Yeknat Zar (literary; Obsession with J ealousy) (1996) and Rekik Ashara (Abstract
Print) (2003).
The thesis has four sections. In the first section introduction to the study,
statement of the problem, objective and scope of the study are included. The
second part mainly embraces theoretical background to the study, which
discusses Feminism as a socio political movement and feminist literary criticism,
and review of related works. Basing the Feminist theoretical concept the third
part analyses and compares the selected five women characters taken form the
three novels. In the fourth part the finding of the s tudy is presented.
The finding of the study indicates the image of woman is distorted in the first two
novels under discussion having the image of seductress, dependent, trouble
maker sex object selfish and irrespons ible. In the last novel Rekik Ashara the
Woman is portrayed as strong assertive, independent and problem solver. Thus it
can be said that the writer has shown progress in his portrayal of women giIJing
positive image for his woman character.
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Image of Women in Sisay Nigusu's Novels