LANGUAGE AND STYLE AS FEMINIST EXTENSION IN NURUDDIN FARAH’S FROM A CROOKED RIB

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.