... use of the English language is violated in this process which seems to counterbalance "the cultural and economic violence perpetrated by the colonizer" (256). Katrak continues with enumarating the themes and content of women writers". They often use oral traditions and their writings are shaped according to their class backgrounds, levels of education, political awareness and commitment. The two ... recurring themes of these texts are connected with their oppression and these are patriarchy and "a worsened predicament within a capitalist economic system introduced by the colonizers" (257...

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