Narrative Discourse and the Emergence of a New Rural Woman in Alobwed’Epie’s the Lady with a Beard

Ophilia Abianji-Menang
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Ophilia Abianji-Menang: Department of English Language and Literature, University of Maroua

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2020, vol. 7, issue 6, 249-257

Abstract: This paper explores narrative discourse and the emergence of a new rural woman in Alobwed’Epie’s the Lady With a Beard. The focus is to show how the text raises awareness on the predicaments of widows in the Cameroonian society. The novel presents some stereotypes of widows as depicted in the society from which it is written and the effects of these stereotypes on widows. However, events in the text show how Alobwed’Epie breaks away from dominant patriarchal ideologies about widows and presents a widow who questions patriarchal canons and overturns widowhood stereotypes. The text also challenges society’s opinion about widows by providing new perspectives from which widows should be viewed. The womanist perspectives of Mary E. Modupe Kolawale, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie and Chikwenye Ogunyemi are used to show that far from being a helpless class of women in society, widows can assert themselves, make choices, inherit, and manage land as well as partake in major socio-cultural, political and economic activities of their communities.

Date: 2020
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