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This story is presented as an oral narration by a self-declared traditional artist who also gives himself the grand titles “Gicaandi player” and “Prophet of Justice”. In his first Kikuyu novel, Ngugi creates a modern woman named Jaciinta Wariinga who is very different from his earlier novels’ traditional female characters. In various ways, Wariinga is symbolic of the enslaved. Ngugi reveals major problems of the society and analyzes the process of her reformation. The author wants Wariinga to speak for Kikuyu readers by claiming that women’s restoration promotes the social development and that workers and peasants must not be oppressed any longer. Ngugi’s representation of Wariinga is a fundamental plea that women in modern Africa have a right to respect and equality. Wariinga is a “resistance heroine” and she overcomes the challenges which confront her. Her experience at the Devil’s Feast changes her from a spectator to a player in the struggle. Wariinga’s passivity gives way to a conscious initiator and facilitator of change. So, two years after the Devil’s Feast at Ilmorog, we encounter the new, dynamic, and self-reliant Wariinga who has become a beautiful and fine looking woman. (Chonbuk National University)

목차

Abstract
I. 서론
II. 검은 과거로부터의 해방
III. 새로운 세상을 향하여
IV. 근대 여성으로 거듭나기
V. 결론
Works Cited

키워드

저자

• 서은주 [ Seo, Eun Joo | 전북대학교 ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [Studies on English Language & Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1226-8682

• 수록기간

  1972~2020

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820