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The Significance, For Readers in the Twenty-First Century, Of the Character of Safie in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Mbithi, Esther K . (Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2016)

This paper presents a critical look at one of the characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Safie, through the lenses of a female African scholar in the twenty-first century. A close look at the narrative structure leads ...

Transmutation and Temporality: Shifting Figures of African Women in Jennifer Makumbi’s Historical Novel Kintu (2014)

Muneen, Jeremiah M.; . Mbithi, Esther K; Makokha, Justus K. S. (International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation (IJLLT), 2021-02-02)

The role of African women writers in employing the unique style of presenting several generations of women characters in the same historical novel to narrate how the world of women has been transformed across time cannot ...