Transcending Patriarchal Border And Self-empowerment In Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come

Résumé: Though women started struggling for their rights since the late of the nineteenth century under the so called feminist movement, till our recent time, patriarchy is still practiced and persistent practice in today's societies. In androcentirc societies, women are subject to an array of blind treatments of men. They are domesticated, thingified, objectified, and robbed off their identities. Since their identity is constructed within the parameters of society, women are denied every opportunity to be equal to men. Likewise, African females attempt to follow the path of the previous feminist movements by starting to remove the restrictions and oppression of their societies. Hence, the aim of this study is to offer a feminist reading to Sefi Atta's Everything Good Will Come. It aims at underlying the different injustices of the Nigerian patriarchy and its working on the protagonist's and other females' consciousness. The novel's protagonist, Enitan, goes through various patterns of subjugation and marginalization. The study traces on the different facets of submission and subordination female characters endure in their journey of self-becomingness commenting on the empowerment strategies and mechanisms used to subvert and defy societal conventions. Subsequently, Enitan, along with other female characters, grows to be the self-assertive and non-conformist woman who no longer accepts to be confined and to abide by the gender roles assigned to her.

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