Liminality Space In-Between: A Feminist Evaluation of Primordial and Modern Polarities of the Woman’s Journey in the Nigerian Novel

Authors

  • Muhammad Alkali Department of English, Universiti Putra Malaysia
  • Rosli Talif Department of English, Universiti Putra Malaysia
  • Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya Department of English, Universiti Putra Malaysia
  • Jariah Mohd. Jan Department of English, University of Malaya

Abstract

The option offered by the modern polarity feminist is not with the intent of sounding like magic, but it largely guarantees the disheartened opposite sex to get pretty impressive results with minimal intervention, resulting in relationship satisfaction, intimacy, love, passion, commitment, and trust. In fact, it can boast of decline in marital dissatisfaction as entirely eliminated, although there could be exceptions. This nego-feminist framework is heard throughout the paper interrogating primordialism on womanhood in Nigerian novels into those with opposition motifs to modern streaks which guarantee lively-partnership. The evaluation shows that women generally can reap maximally from the nego-feminist frame. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/3L-2014-2001-10

Author Biographies

Muhammad Alkali, Department of English, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Muhammad Alkali is a lecturer with the Department of English, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria. His research interests are cultural and literary studies focusing on African literature, feminist linguistics, and gender.

Rosli Talif, Department of English, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Rosli Talif is an Associate Professor of English Studies at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). His main interests include issues in literature and gender, gender roles in literature and the media, gender concerns in children’s literature, and language policy and planning in Malaysia. His publications interlink language and literature while re-examining existing paradigms that affect the way we conceptualize the roles, functions, and developments of language and literature in society.  

Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, Department of English, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya is Associate Professor of English Literature in the Department of English, Faculty of Modern Languages & Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia.  Her research interests, like her teaching, span several areas within English literature, World literatures in English, and literature in the ESL context. Much of her research focuses on gender, cultural identity, and the teaching and learning of literature in the second language. She is also interested in reading literature through existential and absurdist philosophy as well as through eco-critical lens. A further and on-going interest of hers is in the relationship of human with nature in literature.

Jariah Mohd. Jan, Department of English, University of Malaya

Jariah Mohd. Jan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, University of Malaya. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, centering on feminist linguistics, pragmatics, gender and power issues in language, discourse and society, social networks and workplace discourse, and literature in ESL. 

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2014-03-25

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