Gender in Achebe´s Literary World and the Francophone African Literary Touch

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Literature - Africa, , course: AFRICAN LITERATURE/ AFRICAN STUDIES, language: English, abstract: Feminism takes different dimensions: the men haters who are the extremists and the moderates who seek for dialogue between the genders for mutual benefits. Among the extremists are Julia Kristera. She calls for a non-sexist language. Jucie lrigaray¿s thesis was her medium of launching attacks against freud¿s light/darkness imagery. This work titled speculum de l¿autre femme (speculum of the other woman) brought her expulsion from Lacan¿s Ecole Freudienne at Vincennes. Helene Cixous took men on the sexist binary opposition. [...]