Entre marginalización y opresión: el rostro de la mujer ecuatoguineana bajo el patriarcado fang a través de la obra Ekomo de María Nsue Angüe
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Arnauld Keffa, Droh Joël
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2023
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Álabe: Revista de Investigación sobre Lectura y Escritura ISSN 2171-9624 Nº. 27, 2023, pags. 43-59
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This article analyzes the role played by Equatorial Guinean woman within the Fang patriarchal power structure. It seeks to understand how biological differences and social and interpersonal relationships between men and women are constructed in this sociopolitical and cultural system based on the monopolization of power by the man in African society. To carry out this work, the postcolonial theory of Gayatri Spivak, from a perspective of subalternity, has been used, as well as Simone de Beauvoir's feminist theory to question the ideological relations of domination/subordination that characterize men and women through Ekomo. From these theoretical and analytical approaches, this paper concludes that the Equatorial Guinean woman in Ekomo is not only the victim of marginalization and invisibility, but also of violence and exploitation by the man under the order of the Fang patriarchy. This work provides another way of understanding and perceiving the African woman, not as an enemy of man but as a fusional being