Marginalization in Chinua Achebe’s Short Stories
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Marginalization,, group,, women,, men,, war,, Akueke etc.Abstract
Marginalization is a social process by which a person or a group of people are made marginal or become relegated to the fringe or edge of society. It mostly occurs to a group of people sharing common features like race, sex or age Economic, cultural, social and political factors work together to make certain groups in society feel marginalized. Multiculturalism claims that women should have the same rights and the opportunities as men. The women like Akueke, has no free will to choose her life- partner. In Girls at War, the story is based on the Nigerian- Biafran civil war. It highlights how women rejecting the monopoly of men participated in the war. At the end of story, Gladys risks her life as she tries to save the maimed soldier in the bombing raid, she gets caught by the explosions during her attempt to save the maimed and dies.
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Achebe, Chinua: Girls at War and other stories, New York: Anchor Books, A Division of Random House, INC, 1991. Print.
Achebe, Chinua: An Anthology of Recent Criticism, edited by Mala Pandurang. Delhi: Pen craft International, 2006.Print.
Balogun, F. Odun: Tradition and Modernity in African Short Story: An Introduction to a Literature in Search of Critics, Greenwood Press: 1991.
Bhikhu Parekh: What is Multiculturalism: https://www.india-seminar.com/1999/484/484%20parekh.htm
Social exclusion: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/socialexclusion
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