The Impact of Feudalism and Racialism on The Construction of Self- and Gender Identities in Mohamed S. Mohamed’s Kiu and Nyota ya Rehema

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper analyses and evaluates the impact of feudalism and racialism on the mapping and construction of self- and gender identities in Mohamed S. Mohamed’s two novels: Kiu (1972) and Nyota ya Rehema (1976). The study will use a composite approach comprising New Historicism, Gender Criticism and Stylistics. New Historicism helped to situate and map the works analyzed in relation to particular Zanzibari epochs. Gender Criticism was expended in interrogating how women and men in feudal Zanzibari society related with each other at all levels of social interaction and the impact on their self- and gender identities. Finally, stylistics was used to interrogate and evaluate the dominant structural and stylistic features of the choice texts and their impact on the study topic.The study will be guided by two hypotheses, viz, that in feudal Zanzibari society, racialism and the dominant ideologies (patriarchy, feudalism and racialism), impacted negatively on the self- and gender identities of both female and male members of Zanzibari society. Secondly, this study contends that, the stylistic devices used in each one of the choice texts, were important in delineating the mapping and construction of self- and gender identities..

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Abstract
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Metaphorization of Identity in Kiu (1972)
• 3. Fate as a Symbol of Gender Identity in Nyota ya Rehema (1976)
• 4. Summary and Conclusion
• References