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| | | Article Name : | | | Nuruddin Farah’s Women: A Challenge to Somalian
Patriarchal System | | Author Name : | | | BILAL AHMAD DAR | | Publisher : | | | Bridge Center | | Article URL : |  | | | Abstract : | | | Somalian society is exorbitantly patriarchal in structure,
thereupon unrelentingly atrocious and unjust in its dealings with
women. It is one of the hellacious places for women to live in. In
Somalia women are subjected to many heinous crimes like Female
Genital Mutilation (FGM), rape, and objectification. The rights and
freedom of indigenous women are plundered and unjustly
compromised. The rights of women are fobbed off by men in Somalia
through the agency of manifold repressive institutions and exploitative
ideologies like polygamy, clannish attitude, male chauvinism, and
dictatorship. Somalian women are in double-bind, on the one hand,
they are subjugated and suppressed by the internal patriarchy and on
the other they are abused and wronged by the dictatorial governance.
The most inhuman and humiliating treatment meted out to women in
Somalia is forced marriage or what we call wife -barter. This is
exemplified in a situation whereby a girl is coercively given out in
marriage without her due consultations. In some cases women barter is
likened to sales of horses, cattle or even goats; young girls are treated
like capital assets or commodities and are bartered off for the worth of
domestic animals. This brutal patriarchal and feudalistic code makes
women chattels in their society. There is an outright resistance by
women against this exploitative patriarchal social setup. Women in
Somalia are now rebelling against the patriarchal power structures in
order to liberate themselves and their posterity from the shackles of
this patriarchal subjugation. The article proposes to show in the light
of the two novels: From a Crooked Rib (1970) and Sardines (1981) how
Nuruddin Farah contests the female oppression in Somalia and how he contrapuntally projects the resistance of women against the
patriarchal codes of their society. How they out-rightly defy the
patriarchal supremacy of the Somalian culture. | | Keywords : | | | Patriarchal, Essentialised, Chauvinism, Polygamy,
Double-bind, Power structures, Repressive, Ideologies, Exploitative,
Women.
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