postcolonial feminist reading of lynn nottage's ruined: the scream of the subaltern african woman | ||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 September 2021 | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.2021.96473.1262 | ||
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| منى بجاتو* | ||
| جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract: The present study intends to thoroughly examine the Postcolonial feminist perspective in Lynn Nottage’s play Ruined. Western feminism that has claimed to homogenize and universalize feminism problems, has never been applicable to reveal the sufferings of African women due to the differences pertaining to class, race, culture and settings of women of once colonized territories. Hence Postcolonial feminism advocates work to voice the plight of marginalized women against injustices and the massive human rights violations they experience. Nottage adopts a postcolonial approach to the play to acme the plight of women in the Congo, in geographically distant part of the world .where brutality exerted on women's bodies by soldiers during civil war. Nottage successfully intricates three women placed under the burden of slavery, and who experienced all kinds of injustice. This analysis is related to the feminist concept by focusing on the theoretical approaches of Chandra Talapade Mohanty, Gayatri Spivak, Uma Narayan, Sara Suleri, Lata Mani, Kumkum Sangari, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and You-me Park. It exposes the humiliations of African women endure by both colonial forces and native cultural patriarchy. It led the community to chaos, corruption and instability in all the sections of life. Finally, the paper concludes that Nottage tries to show how broken women can rise fight even during the toughest times. The play ends by emphasizing that women’s great courage and great ingenuity are possible even when the world feels very dark. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Postcolonial feminist; Western feminism; marginalized and cultural patriarchy | ||
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