Images of Women in Armah's Two Thousand Seasons: A Thematic Study

Philomina Odi MINTAH

Numéro Spécial 11 – Décembre 2016 : Actes du Colloque International « Ayi Kwei Armah et le destin de l'Afrique » (2016) Page(s) 1 - 10 ISSN 2076-6130

This study examines the general treatment of women in Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons. The aim is to demonstrate how Armah crusades against female subjugation and actively promotes the feminist cause. In Armah’s novels generally, women are always strong, positively or negatively. The study proposes the thesis that despite the long -held view that women in the context of African literatures are hardly protagonists or independent and are totally subjected to male control , there is strong evidence of feminism in male literature which promotes gender balance and equality. The methods adopted for this study are theories of feminism as espoused by Stacey and post colonial feminists. Upon examining the images of women in Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons, it becomes clear that Arma 2 men. It is an extreme type of feminism (Koedt, Anne, Ellen Levine, and Anita Rapone, 1973; Shulman, 1980; Crow, 2000; Rhodes, 2012; Mackay, 2015). Marxist/Socialist Feminism on the other hand views women’s oppressions as linked to the forms of capitalist exploitation of labour. In other words, the Marxist feminists perceive feminism as part of the class struggle and focuses on class along with gender to analyse the unfair treatment of women in society in relation to society’s function within the capitalist economy. Marxist feminists believe that women’s oppression will disappear after an economic revolution (Bandarage, 1984; Lorber, 2010; Tong, 2013). The third class of Feminism, Liberal Feminism (some call it moderate feminism) in the view of Stacey (1993) is distinctive in

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Philomina Odi MINTAH. « Images of Women in Armah's Two Thousand Seasons: A Thematic Study ». Revue Ivoirienne de Langues Étrangères, Numéro 11, 2016, p. 1. ISSN 2076-6130.