Domestic Violence in the Ghanaian Context: Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon in Perspective

Abstract

In the majority of African nations as well as other communities worldwide, domestic violence is not a recent issue. Based on a person's gender, violence against them is common and increasingly common. Sadly, marital violence that results in murder is also on the rise. In an effort to put a stop to the problem, numerous studies have been done on what causes and fosters gender violence. The analysis of domestic abuse in Amma Dark Beyond the Horizon is examined in this paper. This study examines how Darko depicts domestic abuse in her novel and how it impacts women. This study demonstrates that religion, culture, and tradition are significant factors in sex variation, gender identity conception, and energy sharing in the text selected by its theme of patriarchy and oppression of women. It also shows how socially constructed identities and roles in patriarchal countries fuel social and national conflict. The study used the feminist viewpoint and Radical Feminism theory to analyze themes and the symbolic portrayal of characters. This is because knowledge theories about a person's biological sex and gender identity and how they impact power sharing, as well as the role of religion, tradition, laws, and the prevailing ideology in the continuation of gender-based violence, must be considered in analyses of gender relations. The feminist voice must battle against gender radicalism because Darko's work strongly condemns domestic abuse and the portrayal of women as objects. Darko’s writing portrays a strong call against gender violence and the treatment of women as subjects, therefore calling for the feminist voice to fight against gender radicalism.