Double Colonization: A Postcolonial Feminist Study of Buchi Emecheta’s The Slave Girl

Abstract

The research attempts to explore the novel, entitled The Slave Girl written by Buchi Emecheta, who herself was in a struggle to find an escape from the colonized society and its restrictions. With no other option in sight, she migrated her native land. In her novel, she depicts a variety of female characters, who are being made accustomed to slavery through the imposition of patriarchal domination and colonizers' authoritarianism as well as by means of an inequitable system of rule. In this study, the researchers analyse and evaluate the text of the novel while applying the postcolonial feminist theory of ‘Double Colonization of Women.’ The researchers try to analyse the position of women, who undergo slavery and double colonization in the colonized region like Nigeria.

Keywords:  Double colonization, Nigerian colonization, Postcolonial feminist perspective, The Slave Girl