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Yazbec, Olga
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Self-Empowerment Strategies Reflected by the Main Character in Gebeyehu Ayele’s Escape (2011) Belete, Kidist; Yazbec, Olga
NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching Vol. 16 No. 2 (2025): OCTOBER
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/NOBEL.2025.16.2.138-159

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African women developed indigenous feminist theories because they believed that Western Feminism could not answer the needs of African women. The reasons are cultural differences and differences in African women’s experiences compared to those of Western women. This study analyzes female self-empowerment in the young adult novel Escape (2011) by Gebeyehu Ayele. The novel is written for Ethiopian young adults, but it also appeals to adults. An analysis of the young adult female protagonist is conducted using parameters drawn from snail-sense feminist theory. The article uses textual analysis. The researchers apply the strategies of Snail Sense Feminism, i.e., good education, dialogue with patriarchy, and self-actualization, among others, to extract selected passages from the novel to explore how the female protagonist empowers herself and navigates patriarchy with patience and resilience, paving the way for her freedom from the grip of patriarchal oppression. The female character experiences patriarchal oppression within her household. Through resilience, self-determination, patience, tact, her ability to navigate patriarchy, and support from sisterhood, she succeeds in liberating herself from the yoke of patriarchy.
Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Motherhood in Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) Truye, Bekelech; Yazbec, Olga
NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching Vol. 15 No. 1 (2024): APRIL
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/NOBEL.2024.15.1.66-84

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This article aims to explore the representation of the female protagonist’s subjectivity and sexuality in Dinaw Mengestu’s novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007). This novel has been analyzed from other critical perspectives. However, a post-structural feminist analysis of this novel can shed light on the female character’s subjectivity and sexuality, as well as our understanding of womanhood in general. The researchers discovered that the female character in the selected novel is modeled as a person who resists the exclusion of women from knowledge and power in a patriarchal society. She represents a new generation of women who struggle against the subjugation of women. Besides, she resists submissiveness to negative experiences in sexuality. In a nutshell, she is made visible through resilience.
Co-Authors Belete, Kidist Truye, Bekelech