Demystifying Female Voices in Abraham’s Black Sunday: A Marxist Feminist Analysis

Abstract

Abraham's Black Sunday (2020) examines gender inequality in Nigeria and how men mistreat women. This study employs Marxist feminism as proposed by Frederick Engels (1884) to examine Abraham's novel Black Sunday (2020)'s women's suffering and liberation efforts. The research examines the novel's text by outlining, illuminating, interpreting, listing, and drawing conclusions. Feminism is deliberately applied to explain and interpret. The study highlights how patriarchy and capitalism financially punish women. Women have fewer production alternatives, which is why they are economically oppressed. As fathers, husbands, and brothers, men govern the house, family, and society because they own the means of production. Abraham proposes a solution to women's subjugation. Economic independence is the only way to end economic oppression of women. Abraham adopts Engel's economic freedom ideology to free her protagonist from patriarchy and capitalism. The research also highlights women's fights against patriarchy. It also highlights how marginalization affects women and how female protagonists lead anti-patriarchal social movements. The study illuminates men's psyche, especially powerful guys, which improves our comprehension of them. Her work stresses the need of education, economic independence, and moral choice for women's emancipation. The chosen novel's research reveals that language is the key to intimidation and power. Abraham highlights the oppression of Nigerian women under capitalism and patriarchy in her book and emancipates her main character by adopting a Marxist feminist perspective.