ATRIARCHY IN LOLA SHONEYIN’S THE SECRET LIVES OF BABA SEGI’S WIVES AND CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIES’S PURPLE HIBISCUS
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This study investigates the examination of patriarchy in the following texts: Shoneyin’s the Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives and Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. The work helps to investigate the patriarchal control in the texts and the effects it has on the women in the texts. The roles the women had to play and the identities that patriarchy gives to them. The work also shows us the resistance and the strategies that women used to survive in this text
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