Language, Society and Gender

Abstract

Gender Studies is a common academic scholarship in contemporary global society. Its field of study has generated a lot of controversies about its peculiarities and subjects of discourse, especially in the European world and African society. The peculiarities and discourses are sometimes assumed to be subjected to different conceptual opinionated ideologies. These affirmations make it distances itself from the biological roles of sexuality. Previous studies have largely examined it from gender roles to the neglect of its deeper gender bias of women in society. This paper, therefore, discussed the gender bias and inequality that women encounter in their various societies and how they champion their course through the revolution of self-consciousness and power relational competitiveness. It also investigates linguistic devices deployed by the selected playwright to assert the gender inequality and liberation of womanhood from the patriarchal society. This is with a view to determining the role of literary writers as social critics and revolutionary vanguards. The selected playwright for the study is Ahmed Yerima. The selected text for the study is Ahmed Yerima’s The Sisters. Schechner’s Performance, Freudian and Jungian psychoanalytic theories were used to analyse the sociological realities of the selected literary text. The data were subjected to literary analyses.

Keywords

• self-consciousness
• liberation
• language
• society
• gender