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The study's outcomes revealed that colonialism and patriarchy impose TheĪrticle is used to explain the novel in the contexts of colonization and postcolonialįeminism with further investigation into gendered roles and the patriarchal oppression

Will be conducted under Spivak’s concept of ‘Subalternism’, articulated in her seminalĮssay, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” which provides theoretical impetus to the study. It is qualitative research, and the textual analysis of the novel Theorists in general and Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak in particular to develop a theoreticalįramework for this study. The researcher pertains to postcolonial feminist

Through a postcolonial feminist approach that interrogates gendered roles in Exit West,Ī work by Hamid published in 2017. This study deals with this sensitive issue Predicament, and persecution under patriarchy.

Pakistani writers, particularly Mohsin Hamid, have long highlighted women's struggle, This study mainly draws upon the concepts of othering and representation from postcolonial critical theory, and shows with the help of textual examples that Oroonoko projects colonial agenda more than any other thing, and just as a coloinial text, its discourse and narrative strategy provide the writer with absolute opportunity to further colonial agenda. In this paper, we argue that Aphra Behn's Oroonoko is a colonial text that has frequent instances of othering and misrepresentation conducted owing to the writer's Eurocentrism and her use of colonial discourse and narrative strategy.

The author's claim that it is a true history of the royal slave written impartially is fallacious as Behn adheres to the colonial ideology and maintains her cultural, racial and biological superiority. It is centered around the love if its hero, an enslaved African prince in Surinam, and the author's own experiences in the new South American colony, which was under the rule of England at that time. Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: A True History, is late seventeenth century fictional work, considered to be one of the earliest English novels.