(International Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Science, 2020-09) Sigera, Moses Okea; Tunai, Kesero; Bwonya, Jane
Female characters are often depicted as fighting and struggling for their gender space in the
writings of African especially in East Africa. Asenath Odaga projects how women have risen up
against the societal boundaries that have always elevated the man at the expense of the woman. In
Between the Years (1987) and Endless Road (1995) we seek to examine how women have resisted
cultural stereotypes as well as masculinity that is as a result of patriarchal leaning of the society.
Women resist all the negative representations in the two texts that manifest themselves through
objectification and otherization.
