Nuruddin Farah Essays

Jump the Gun is a South African based and shoot in the city of gold, Johannesburg which mainly follows the lives of three diverse characters; Gugu, Clint and Mini. This essay will be focusing on, with support and constant reference to specific scenes from the film Jump the Gun, or rather discussing how the various complex characters develop the narrative and intersect through the film. This essay will also discuss the racial and sexual identities, and how the representation of postapartheid South

Helen Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl engages with many questions within the diasporic dialogue and the writer asserts the position she takes with all issues she deals with. She, like many, sees that there are many things pulling apart the ideas of Englishness and Nigerian-ness but at the same time, there are things that fuse them together in people that live both those identities at the same time. Jess is the person she uses to establish this unsteady union and at the end, this young girl who begins her

In Africa, as I will discuss, capitalism has used but also modified patriarchal institutions, just as patriarchy has sought to preserve or extend those institutions under the political, economic, and cultural changes introduced by capitalism. (April A.Gordon, 57). I have tried to accommodate in my analysis that feminists do need to avoid the often ethnocentric assumption that all women’s experiences of patriarchy-or capitalism- are the same, or that all women experience oppression in the same way