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A common claim of today's world is that women have been subjected to unfair treatment by men. Thi... more A common claim of today's world is that women have been subjected to unfair treatment by men. This concern has led to feminist writers and women's Liberation Movements campaigning for the emancipation of women's liberation. The overriding approach from the literary angle has been to draw up fictional women to project the real-life conditions and experiences of women. This study compares the real-life woman and the fictional woman created by these feminist writers bearing in mind the misguiding effects that may occur if the imaginary woman of fiction does not reflect the real-life woman. The research was aimed, among other objectives, at providing guidelines for the improvement of feminist fiction in order that it may reflect real-life. Four literary texts-Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Mariama Ba's So long a Letter and Wole Soyinka's Kongi's Harvest were selected for the research, and a comparative analysis of the fictional woman portrayed in the texts and real-life was done. The analysis was guided by a review of established bodies of knowledge on the issue. It was concluded from the findings that women are indeed subjected to most of the conditions mentioned at the outset of the research and that a lot of socio-political originations, in collaboration with feminist writers, are campaigning for women's liberation. It was also concluded that literary texts are indeed appropriate tools for the purpose of emancipation of women; and that society stands the risk of being guided into making blunders. The findings also revealed that some qualities of the fictional woman reflect the qualities of the real-life woman while others do not.
A common claim of today's world is that women have been subjected to unfair treatment by men. Thi... more A common claim of today's world is that women have been subjected to unfair treatment by men. This concern has led to feminist writers and women's Liberation Movements campaigning for the emancipation of women's liberation. The overriding approach from the literary angle has been to draw up fictional women to project the real-life conditions and experiences of women. This study compares the real-life woman and the fictional woman created by these feminist writers bearing in mind the misguiding effects that may occur if the imaginary woman of fiction does not reflect the real-life woman. The research was aimed, among other objectives, at providing guidelines for the improvement of feminist fiction in order that it may reflect real-life. Four literary texts-Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'urbervilles, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Mariama Ba's So long a Letter and Wole Soyinka's Kongi's Harvest were selected for the research, and a comparative analysis of the fictional woman portrayed in the texts and real-life was done. The analysis was guided by a review of established bodies of knowledge on the issue. It was concluded from the findings that women are indeed subjected to most of the conditions mentioned at the outset of the research and that a lot of socio-political originations, in collaboration with feminist writers, are campaigning for women's liberation. It was also concluded that literary texts are indeed appropriate tools for the purpose of emancipation of women; and that society stands the risk of being guided into making blunders. The findings also revealed that some qualities of the fictional woman reflect the qualities of the real-life woman while others do not.