Published Online:December 2025
Product Name:The IUP Journal of English Studies
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJES041225
DOI:10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.4.35-42
Author Name:Siva R and Ramesh M
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Subject/Domain:Arts and Humanities
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Pages:35-42
The paper examines how Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta highlights the ill-effects of British colonialism and internal colonialism on Nigerian women in her novel The Slave Girl. Emecheta gained global attention for the powerful representation of African women, especially Nigerian women, in her writings. Her novel, The Slave Girl, is about Ogbanje Ojebeta, who was sold into domestic slavery at the age of six by her own brother after her parents’ death. Ogbanje Ojebeta’s story shows how women have been subjected to traditional and patriarchal oppression in African Ibo (also spelled Igbo) culture, both before and after British colonialism.
Postcolonial writing emerged as a distinct movement in the mid-20th century, adding a new dimension to English literature. The postcolonial theory emerged as a result of the incapacity of the existing theories to effectively address the complexity and diversity of the cultural heritage of postcolonial writing.