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Issaka, Charity Azumi
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Using Dirt to Clean Dirt: Deconstructing The Enigmatic Portrait of Mara in Darko’s Beyond The Horizon Sanka, Confidence Gbolo; Issaka, Charity Azumi; Abrafi, Josephine Adu; Yeboah, Philomena Abaka
CaLLs (Journal of Culture, Arts, Literature, and Linguistics) Vol 10, No 1 (2024): CaLLs, June 2024
Publisher : Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Mulawarman

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30872/calls.v10i1.14630

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Mara’s travails in Ghana and subsequently Germany, have provided the fertile grounds for critics to draw various labels for the protagonist in Beyond the horizon. To some readers, Mara is a victim who has been exploited through patriarchy; to others, Mara learns from her environment and finally asserts her independence; and to a third group of critics, Mara is complicit in the fate that befalls her. Thus Mara remains an enigma, earning our sympathy or losing it; winning our admiration or courting our disgust depending on which angle we look at her. This paper does an objective analysis of Mara by resorting to the theory of deconstruction which helps us unearth more than what meets the eye in the novel. This approach helps us provide answers to issues such as how Mara is presented in the narrative, the motivations that guide her actions and inactions and how Mara, as an individual, and the society at large contribute in creating the protagonist we part ways with at the end of the narrative. The conclusion arrived at is that there are myriads of relationships among the characters in the narrative that provide hierarchies of meaning which can be deconstructed to produce more subtle and valid ones. Mara is not simply a victim; she is complicit, to some extent, and she takes steps to obliterate those she considers the vermin of the earth. In short, she uses dirt (prostitution) to clean dirt (patriarchy, male chauvinism, discrimination, poverty, racism).KEY WORDS: deconstruction, dirt, Ghana, marriage, patriarchy, prostitution.
INTERROGATING THE DISCOURSE OF POWER AND ITS RESISTANCE IN NAWAL EL SADAAWI’S GOD DIES BY THE NILE Issaka, Charity Azumi; Sanka, Cofidence Gbolo; Resque, Elvis
International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS) Vol 6, No 2 (2023): March 2023
Publisher : Sanata Dharma University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/ijhs.v6i2.5433

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This paper employs Foucault’s theory on Discourse, Power, and Knowledge to highlight the powers shaping the Egyptian woman in God Dies by the Nile. The paper also uses the feminist theory in identifying the ways that the Egyptian woman uses to resist the discourse of power in the narrative. The paper, therefore, focuses on the power dynamics in the novel. Thus questions addressed in this paper include: how the discourses of family, society, and religion are generated in the novel; how patriarchy shapes the discourse of power in the narrative, and the subtle means used by women to resist and play out power in the novel. Using a thematic approach, textual analysis, and the novel as a primary source, the paper discusses patriarchal discourse and power politics. Examining a selection of discourses and how they affect the body of the female help in appreciating the effect of patriarchy on women in the novel. The study concludes that discourse alone does not explain the power dynamics in the novel. Silence, rebellion, female bonding, and the creation of paranoia in the men through silent but open resistance to patriarchy are some of the power dynamics played out in the novel by the female gender.  
UNDERSTANDING THE CHILD SOLDIER IN UZODINMA IWEALA’S NOVEL, BEASTS OF NO NATION Yeboah, Philomena Ama Okyeso; Otoo, Paul; Freitas, Philip Kwame; Bonku, Lucy Korkoi; Issaka, Charity Azumi
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching Vol 6, No 2: December 2022
Publisher : Universitas Islam Sumatera Utara (UISU)

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30743/ll.v6i2.6164

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The academic space has witnessed in recent times, a plethora of research works on child soldiering. However, the majority of these works are often viewed from a non-literary perspective. Using textual analysis which is purely qualitative in nature, this paper, from a literary perspective, focused on examining the representation of the child soldier figure in Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation by paying particular attention to the characterization of the child soldier as an individual who transitions from a victim of war to a victimizer. With the help of the trauma theory, the paper discussed and provided an understanding of the physiological factors and reactions that necessitate this transition. Based on Bloom’s concepts of trauma and the general theory of trauma, the paper finds that the child soldier transitions from a victim of war to a victimizer is a result of the fear that overwhelms him. Again, the child soldier undergoes this transition in order to survive the war – anarchetypal mammalian survival response. This study is significant as it has contributed to the existing literature on child soldier narratives in Africa and provided an understanding of the child soldier’s reactions and responses to the devastating trauma that accompanies war.
Co-Authors Abrafi, Josephine Adu Bonku, Lucy Korkoi Freitas, Philip Kwame Otoo, Paul Resque, Elvis Sanka, Cofidence Gbolo Sanka, Confidence Gbolo Yeboah, Philomena Abaka Yeboah, Philomena Ama Okyeso