Dance of Attrition and Resistance: Semiotics of Gender Stratification in “Three Suitors, One Husband, and Until Further Notice”

Dance of Attrition and Resistance: Semiotics of Gender Stratification in “Three Suitors, One Husband, and Until Further Notice”

Abstract This study is an assessment of African social structures through the lens of structuralist ideology by examining the opposing binaries of gender conflict which are evident in the literature of colonised societies because the intersection of gender and power structure in societies is often reflected in fictional literature of the region. The mythic establishment of patriarchal systems...
 
Published at Ibadan Journal of English Studies, (IBJES)
Volume 11
Issue 11
Pages 15-22
Published in 2015
 
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Awogu-Maduagwu, E.A.; Owoeye S.T.; Abiodun Eniayekan E.N.
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