Constructs of Postcolonial Space and Identity in Women’s Fiction

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dc.contributor.authorOcan, Johnson
dc.contributor.authorNamara, Sharon
dc.contributor.authorKwizera, Gad
dc.contributor.authorAinemababazi, Norah
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-07T13:51:14Z
dc.date.available2025-10-07T13:51:14Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThis study examines women fictionists’ engagement with the interwoven themes of conflict trauma, the pursuit of education, and duplicity in Beatrice Lamwaka’s Butterfly Dreams and Monica Arac de Nyeko’s Jambula Tree. It argues that these authors construct narrative spaces which reflect contemporary realities where their heroines assert autonomy, reconstruct identities, inscribe painful memories, and confront postcolonial tensions in northern Uganda during the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency. Using textual analysis, the research interrogates the weight of postcolonial governance through critical concerns such as gender, post-traumatic stress disorder, armed conflict, educational aspiration, and sexuality—particularly in Uganda’s sociopolitical context, where same-sex relationships are criminalised. Findings indicate that women fiction writers employ the postcolonial framework to anchor their narratives in historical tragedy, advocate for sociopolitical transformation, affirm individuality, and pursue emancipation through the written word.
dc.identifier.citationOcan, J., Namara, S., Kwizera, G. & Ainemababazi, N. (2025). Constructs of Postcolonial Space and Identity in Women’s Fiction. East African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 8(3), 458-474. https://doi.org/10.37284/eajass.8.3.3649
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.37284/eajass.8.3.3649
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12493/2965
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEast African Journal of Arts and Social Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Statesen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subjectPostcolonial Space
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectSexuality
dc.subjectFiction Epistemology
dc.subjectTrauma
dc.subjectSociopolitical Shifts
dc.titleConstructs of Postcolonial Space and Identity in Women’s Fiction
dc.typeArticle

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