Open AccessFemale characters in Kenyan women’s short story: From submission to self-reliance
Author(s) -
Alina Rinkanya
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
language in africa
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2686-8946
DOI - 10.37892/2686-8946-2021-2-3-68-92
Subject(s) - kenya , depiction , gender studies , history , sociology , literature , psychology , political science , art , law
The article analyses the depiction of new types of female characters in the stories by Kenyan female writers published from 2003 to 2012 in literary almanacs Kwani? and Storymoja. The author traces the evolution of female characters from the “victim” type, which appeared in Kenyan women’s literature already in the 1960s, to its modern alternatives – women advocating their rights in all spheres of private and public life.