UCHAMBUZI WA UPEKETEVU WA WANAWAKE KATIKA RIWAYA TEULE ZA SAID AHMED MOHAMED

Abstract

This study is set out to examine aggression of women characters in selected literary works of Said Ahmed Mohamed. Aggression is a hostile behaviour that intends to hurt somebody else intentionally. It affects a person physically, emotionally and psychologically. This behaviour can be caused by frustration, violence, bad governance, discrimination, oppression and poverty among others, have been analyzed and portrayed in the novels. The objective of the research is to identify the causes and effects of aggression of women in the selected texts of Said A.Mohamed. Research has been done on the status of women in the society. Many women have been oppressed and this has resulted to women aggression. However, this problem of aggression has not been researched on in Said Ahmed Mohamed works. This study intended to find out whether oppression of women could serve as a pointer that paved way to women aggression. This research was guided by the tenets of Feminism theory and its strands namely radical feminism, social feminism and liberal feminism. The sampling procedure used was purposeful sampling. Three selected novels of Said A.Mohamed were studied. These were: Utengano, Nyuso za mwanamke na Tata za Asumini. The researcher chose these three novels to identify whether they portray aspects of aggression and again they were written in different decades. Through them its clear to notice the changes women have undergone particularly in the most recent selected novel- Nyuso za Mwanamke (2010). The research was done in the library where the three novels were studied in detail. The researcher purposefully sampled ten (10) women characters from the selected novels who were analyzed for elements of aggression and its effects. Works of other scholars related to the topic of research, journals and the internet were of much help in giving more information concerning the topic. This formed the main data of this research. The data was analyzed using qualitative descriptive method. The findings of this study clearly points out aggression of women and its effects which are either positive or negative. It is hoped that the study will be useful to students and researchers of Swahili literature on aggression of women in literary works.