Culture and Intra-gender Women Subjugation as reflected in Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen

Abstract

Very often, male beings are known to be the subjugators of women in different fields; they are pointed to be those who subordinate and manipulate women by hampering their visibility. This paper, however, finds paradoxically that women are at the basis of their own problems. It shows that they are those encouraging the male being’s domination over themselves through their intra-gender subjugation. Therefore, the paper has made use of Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen to expose, through the interaction of characters, the cultural and the females’ intra-gender subjugation.