A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come

Abstract

This paper attempts to study how the African writer Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come    interrogated the prominent traditional patriarchal domination and analyses how successfully she captures the African ethos. The study focuses on the central character Enitan, who creates her own identity unafraid of any social entities. The study revolves around how Enitan moved away from the traditional portrayals of self sacrificing woman towards a female protagonist who raises her voice against male domination and cultural backwardness. Not only Enitan, but the other female characters in this novel are also very assertive and utilize all means available to them to affirm their individuality. The study also focuses on the concept of ‘modern woman’ and how Enitan embodies or how she attains the status of ‘modern woman’. The study also traces Enitan’s evolution to a fiercely intelligent strong woman coming of age in a culture that still insists on feminine submission. The paper submits that woman cannot continue in the space defined for her by the society. So she is bound to create a space for herself, by strongly fighting against the male dominated society, both in the home and the larger society.