Marxist and Feminist Analysis Of "the Concubine"

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7 pages. The concubine is a fictional prose published in 1961 and written by the famous Nigerian author, Elechi Amadi. The concubine presents the story of a beautiful young woman, Ihuoma whose spiritual lover, the sea-god, killed all men who came her way including her husband Emenike, Madume, a greedy unsuccessful man, and Ekwueme, a young hunter who later showed interest in her after the demise of her husband. A Marxist and Feminist analysis of The Concubine unveils a class struggle, the quest for wealth leading to violence, patriarchal system coupled with the discrimination of genders in a feudal and a monarchical system.

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