Challenging Patriarchal Misogyny: A Feminist Analysis of the Selected Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jamaica Kincaid

Abstract

The research paper conducts a comparative feminist literary analysis which studies selected works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jamaica Kincaid to show how both authors use their cultural and postcolonial backgrounds to fight against patriarchal misogyny. The paper shows how both writers use displacement and voice and resistance as literary techniques to make female subjectivity the main focus of their stories from its previous position as a secondary element. The paper analyzes domestic violence and colonial legacy and sexual politics and maternal ambivalence and self-determination through postcolonial feminist theory and intersectionality and gender studies. The analysis shows that Adichie and Kincaid belong to separate geographic and cultural backgrounds because they come from Nigeria and Antigua but their fictional and essay works both work to decolonize gender norms while they show new ways for women to exercise power that goes beyond patriarchal restrictions.