From Silence to Strength: The Empowerment of Women in Adichie And Roy’s Texts

Abstract

The present paper touches upon the changing image of women empowerment in postcolonial and recent English fiction. Through the analysis of some works the research explores the most important confrontations between women characters and male dominance found in the works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus and Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things. The study is analytical, comparative and qualitative, using feminist and postcolonial theories of literature. It is found that although the prevailing tradition in postcolonial fiction is to bring into the focus the struggle of women against colonial/ local patriarchic systems, contemporary fiction emphasizes to a greater degree the cross-counter and the subjective. The study establishes that, English fiction has turned out to be the highly efficient form of expression and promotion of the idea of women empowerment that mirrors the rest of the social-political transformations and problems.