The paper interrogates the tendency to foreground female characters and the implications. The Postcolonial BildungsromanIt appears from the onset that the Bildungsroman tradition is gradually becoming synonymous with novelistic expression in recent Nigerian fiction. In fact, the male characters, both young and old, fall under her hammer as irresponsible, fleshly, vain and insensitive. What one suggests is that, all the female characters are interdependent and jointly contribute to the emergence of a strong thematic construct in the novel. The implication of this is grave on either gender and for our purpose here, the male gender most importantly.

Source: The Guardian February 10, 2019 04:59 UTC