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Ecocritical Discourse and the Ambivalent Concepts of Colonialism and Marriage in Marilyn Heward Mills? Cloth Girl.
Subject area: Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities · Area of research: African Literature
Abstract
In both their literal and metaphorical perspectives, the terms, marriage and colonialism have often been used in literature to ascribe to situations of domination of individuals or territories by aggressors with masculinist powers and the surrender of victims with feminist helplessness. The female gender is somewhat equated to a geographical territory, just as much as the colonizer of a conquered territory can be likened to an abusive male partner in a marriage. In analysing Marilyn Heward Mills? novel, Cloth Girl, this paper discovers that environmental tropes are used symbolically and synonymously to describe the experience of subjugation in marriage and the novel reveals a consistent pattern of environmental images to sustain the engagement between the oppressor and the oppressed. vivid description of the vicissitudes of the natural environment that both marriage and colonialism were established at the pleasure of the superior partner and that privileges were not meant to be shared equitably.
How to cite this paper
@article{1707262,
author = {Prof. Terhemba Shija},
title = {Ecocritical Discourse and the Ambivalent Concepts of Colonialism and Marriage in Marilyn Heward Mills? Cloth Girl.},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2025},
volume = {8},
number = {8},
pages = {643-650},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1707262.pdf},
abstract = {In both their literal and metaphorical perspectives, the terms, marriage and colonialism have often been used in literature to ascribe to situations of domination of individuals or territories by aggressors with masculinist powers and the surrender of victims with feminist helplessness. The female gender is somewhat equated to a geographical territory, just as much as the colonizer of a conquered territory can be likened to an abusive male partner in a marriage. In analysing Marilyn Heward Mills? novel, Cloth Girl, this paper discovers that environmental tropes are used symbolically and synonymously to describe the experience of subjugation in marriage and the novel reveals a consistent pattern of environmental images to sustain the engagement between the oppressor and the oppressed. vivid description of the vicissitudes of the natural environment that both marriage and colonialism were established at the pleasure of the superior partner and that privileges were not meant to be shared equitably.},
month = {February},
}