Women At The Crossroad Of Change In Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story (1991)

Résumé: This dissertation has dealt with Ama Ata Aidoo’s novel Changes: A Love Story (1991). The purpose is to discuss women’s positions and roles in contemporary Ghanaian society and the many complex issues that impact their lives. The main focus of this work is on the author’s denunciation of issues such as gender, sexuality, patriarchy and polygamy. To explore this theme and to approach texts, we have used Alice Walker’s theory of “Womanism” in her book In Search of Our Mothers Garden’s: Womanist Prose (1983). In the first chapter, we have dealt with the representation of women as agents of change. Aidoo has given a new image of African women who are educated, intelligent, audacious and powerful. In second chapter, we have dealt with women who caught between African traditions and modernity. The dilemma of these women is that they can’t make not only their individual choices, but also personal and professional lives. Furthermore, in the last chapter, we have dealt with the main protagonist who couldn’t achieve her liberation due to the many difficulties and obstacles that she has faced in her society. To conclude, we have reached that women face difficulties to make their own choices. They can’t achieve true freedom and happiness in their familial or social roles either intellectually, physically or sexually

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