Postcolonial feminist discourse in flora nwapa’s women are different

Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin point out the similarity between feminist and postcolonial theories with regard to their “experience of the politics of oppression and repression” (249). As part of their decolonizing strategies, African women writers create a language of their own to secure their liberation from oppressive means of colonization and patriarchy. This paper, then, with reference to the views of postcolonial and feminist critics such as Ania Loomba, Ketu H. Katrak, and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, aims to discuss how Flora Nwapa in Women are Different challenges the hegemony of dominant patriarchal ideologies by employing an alternative feminist discourse. Nwapa represents Nigerian women in the nation- building process as historical subjects aware of the past, yet willing to change and contribute to the development of a postcolonial Nigeria. © 2002 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.