Feminist Perspectives In Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes And Ifeoma Okoye’s Behind The Clouds

ABSTRACT There are different perspectives to gender issues, but this work has limited its review to the womanist perspective in Aidoo’s CHANGES and Okoye’s BEHIND THE CLOUDS.  In establishing the perspective, a study of both writers looking critically into their literary and their ideology on womanism is carried out. The writers  standpoint on the womanist approach under feminist theory in the analysis of the selected works, exposes us to the fact that gender issues in relation to feminism is an attempt to describe and interpret women experiences as portrayed by their female characters. The wr…