Women’s fight in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross: a structural analysis

@inproceedings{Mwenze2018WomensFI,  title={Women’s fight in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross: a structural analysis},  author={Honor{\'e} Ngoie Mwenze},  year={2018},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:192698317}}
DOI: 10.15580/GJLLR.2018.1.030718034 This paper attempts to investigate the meaning of Ngugi’s Devil on the Cross. Through the analysis of the novel structure, it pursues a revelation of the social disease painted in the novel and a detection of the kind of Women’s fight and its protagonists engaged in the revolution of the fictional society. This research bases its analysis through Algirdas Julien Greimas’ semiotic square model. As a result, the build of the semiotic square summarizes the… 

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