Language And Style As Feminist Extension In Nuruddin Farah’s From A Crooked Rib.pdf

Abstract This research explores language and style as feminist extension in Farah’s From a Crooked Rib. In other words, the study examines how plot, narrative technique and setting have influenced Farah’s stylistic pattern. This is achieved through a semantic analysis and interpretation of some lexical items and patriarchal descriptions of hemmed-in Somalia gender prejudice and female inferiority in Farah’s novel. The lexical items visible in the title “from a crooked Rib” have acquired cultural meanings that contend with feminist tenets of female assertiveness and emancipation. Within the feminist circles, symbolic patterns of fictional exposition delineate Farah’s motifs—journey and slavery. Keywords: language, style, semantics, feminist extension