Re-imaging the Female Character in Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah .

Abstract

The cultural exclusion of the female has invariably been viewed from a specific
privileged cultural perspective in postcolonial and feminist theories. Often,
patriarchy and misogynist subjugation of the female subject have been viewed
by many cultures in postcolonial literature as major forms of female exclusion.
The early African male writers have particularly been accused of creating
their female characters in a subordinate role that excludes them. This paper
modern and
Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
through a feminist phenomenological framework. The paper argues that it is
difficult to pin down an aspect of cultural material that completely excludes
an Igbo female when viewed from a culture outside her own. The paper
itself, reading a female exclusion in the text should be appreciated from the
Igbo cultural perspective because locating the design of a particular cultural
issue in one culture is differently realised in another culture.