Struggle for Survival: Female Masculinisation as Presented in Macgoye’s Coming to Birth and Victoria and Murder in Majengo

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dc.contributor.authorMwichuli, Maurice Simbili
dc.contributor.authorMakokha, Gloria Ajami
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-24T08:16:27Z
dc.date.available2020-11-24T08:16:27Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionA research article published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing and World Literaturesen_US
dc.description.abstractIn the patriarchal world,courage, vigor and strength are qualities often ascribed to men. In her two novels,Coming to Birthand Victoria and Murder in Majengo, Marjorie Oludhe MacGoye seeks to demystify this assumption by assigning these qualities to her female characters. This paper therefore aims at juxtaposing the female characters with the male characters in view of identity formation and fight for equity in society. Of major interest is how the female characters rise against the odds to live a life that rises against the societal misconceptions and limitations to a full life of value to the men and society at large. This is in the light of their contributions to fellow women and the society they live in.The tenets of deconstruction, a theory proposed by Jacque Derrida whichseeks to unravel the various meanings of given texts, isused in the explication of the given texts.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMwichuli, M. S. ., & Makokha, G. A. (2020). Struggle for Survival: Female Masculinisation as Presented in Macgoye’s Coming to Birth and Victoria and Murder in Majengo. Journal of Postcolonial Writing and World Literatures, 1(1), 4-14. Retrieved from https://royalliteglobal.com/world-literatures/article/view/49en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://royalliteglobal.com/world-literatures/article/view/49/37
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/20992
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoyallite Globalen_US
dc.subjectequityen_US
dc.subjectmasculinisationen_US
dc.subjectpatriarchalen_US
dc.titleStruggle for Survival: Female Masculinisation as Presented in Macgoye’s Coming to Birth and Victoria and Murder in Majengoen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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