“A Woman Killed With Kindness”: The [Inter]play of Women Physiology and Psychology in African Women Literature

Abstract

Modern African writing emerged out of the contact between Africa and the West, a contact
which was both “historical” and “experiential” in dimension. The purpose of this literature is to
comprehend and challenge the states of consciousness induced by an experience which had
modified not only physical realities of life but also perspectivization of the African psyche.
And within this dialectal praxis lies the unique experience of African women whose political
and sociological spheres of independence have been transgressed both on account of being
colonized denizens by the dominant colonial narratives as well as due to the skewed mental
structures of pro-sexist discourse finding its takers in neo-capitalist nation state. The dual
inequity is something which is categorical to every black women narrative whether it is the
Black American or the Caribbean one and of course, the original one that of the Africa.