Re-imagining Family and Gender Roles in Aminatta Forna's Ancestor Stones

dc.contributor.authorNg'umbi, Yunusy Castory
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-03T14:48:43Z
dc.date.available2018-09-03T14:48:43Z
dc.date.issued2017-07-10
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the interplay between polygyny and gender by exploring the way in which family structure and gender roles are negotiated, imagined and exercised in fiction. Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor stones (2006) is read in order to explore how the institution of polygyny changes over time and how it influences gender role negotiation. Using an African feminist approach, the paper juxtaposes the historical and contemporary institution of polygyny in relation to gender role negotiation and how contemporary writers build on their literary precursors in re-writing the history of polygyny and gender according to the socio-cultural needs of twenty-first century Africans. These changes in socio-cultural, economic and political spheres in Africa have played a pivotal role in altering family structure and arrangements. I therefore argue that the changes in familial structure and arrangement necessitate gender role negotiation.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tvl.v.54i2.2772en_US
dc.identifier.issn0041-476x
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4753
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_US
dc.subjectAminatta Forna; Family; Gender roles; Nego-feminism; Polygyny; Womanismen_US
dc.titleRe-imagining Family and Gender Roles in Aminatta Forna's Ancestor Stonesen_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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