![]() ![]() It concludes that there is a compelling need for contemporary female African novelists to give a fair representation of men in their novels. ![]() The study demonstrates that Nawal El Sadaawi, like other reviewed African female novelists, gives an exaggerated negative and unfair representation of men in Woman at Point Zero. The radical feminist theory provides the theoretical framework. With a particular reference to Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero, it examines how several female African novelists have demonised men in their novels. However, not much study has been done on how the feminist-oriented female African novelists have deliberately demonised and bestialised the male characters in their novels in order to get even with the male novelists. In response to the proclivity of male African novelists to relegate women to the background in their novels, many female African novelists have exposed the phallic nature of the African society in their novels. Studies abound on the phallic nature of African literature. ![]()
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