A historical look discourse at the modern African novel The feminist novel as a model

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Abstract

Narrative literature in Africa through its various stages and since its appearance on the creative scene has achieved an important achievement in form and content, so it was a real addition to African literature.

By the modern African novel, we mean the novelistic experience in post-colonial Africa during this period in which the pioneering narrative authors appeared: Chinua Achebe, Ngogi, Athingwa, Peter Abrahams and others in the Anglophone narrative, and Camara Lay, Sanbin and Ben Jelloun in the Francophone narrative an addition to Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih and Muhammad Zafzaf in the Arabic narrative, and other writers whose creative experiences varied through multiple discourses.

This study reviews experience of the discourse of the modern African novel in Africa after the colonial period, focusing on the content of the narrative activities of the new generation of African women writers, and also concerned with the impact of change on issues of new narrative activities compared to the experience of previous pioneers.

The feminist discourse in the modern African Anglophone novel includes a case study of the novelists "Yvonne Vera" and "Chima Mand Ngozi Adichie" in reading the prominent signs in this fictional literature and the intellectual product of the generation of female novelists in modern African literature.

The study includes three main axes as follows: First axis: It deals with the general framework of the African novel, second axis: the feminist discourse of the African novel, and the third axis: the most important common characteristics in the modern feminist discourse.