Forms of Fighting Back Women’s Oppression in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and Assia Djebar’s Children of the New World

Abstract

This thesis uses the feminist theory to analyze Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1968) and Assia Djebar’s Children of the New World (1988). The study aims to examine the state of the African women and describe the issue of the double oppression and injustice they suffer from. It also discusses the different forms that these female characters resort to in order to fight back such oppression. This work accordingly aims to describe how Tsitsi Dangarembga and Assia Djebar seek to valorize women’s role in the different societies they belong to, respectively. Moreover, this thesis reveals the true image of the African societies being an Algerian or a Zimbabwean, in which, women kept constrained by its traditional values. Consequently, it examines the various changes that occur to the female characters’ lives.