Pub. Date | : June, 2023 |
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Product Name | : The IUP Journal of English Studies |
Product Type | : Article |
Product Code | : IJES060623 |
Author Name | : Nikita Anand and Aditya Prakash |
Availability | : YES |
Subject/Domain | : Arts & Humanities |
Download Format | : PDF Format |
No. of Pages | : 15 |
The meaning of the phrase "prostitutes Nigerian style" is interrogated by the female protagonist of Emecheta's Double Yoke (1983, 141). Although the novel is primarily set in independent Nigeria, this paper analyzes the theme of female submission in the novel vis-a-vis dominant sexual intercourse powers to procure agency for discourses on basic human rights: to live, to educate, and to work freely within the national boundary. Drawing on the discursive idea of Dworkin (1987, 10) on intercourse in a man-made world, characterized by "depravity, debauchery, dissoluteness," this paper argues that Emecheta's novel calls into question why the existing hearings for an unimaginable devaluation of womanhood are still unrecorded, why the discourses of human rights and liberty fall short of women's needs, and how their existence is fraught by torture, beatings, and sexual punishments via the State's educational institutions and other governing organizations such as National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), Nigeria.
When you live alone as a woman, confidence is something you have to build.
- Klinenberg (2013, 69)
If she is black and coming out into the world she must be doubly armed, doubly prepared.
- Walker (1983, 36)