GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

This work examines male chauvinism in C. N. Okebalama’s ? d? ?k? na mba and Onye a na-eche, with a view to give insight on the representation of male characters’gender, and their manifestation of superiority, power or dominance over the female counterpart. The study follows a qualitative analytical research design. The data collection for the work relied heavily on print document observation. The appraisal texts are used as the instrument for data gathering. The data got is translated into English language and analyzed descriptively using Van Dijk’s model of CDA. The researchers identified the instances of chauvinism in ? d? ?k? na mba, which includes the situation where a married man would keep his wife at home while he kept going out for clubbing keeping late nights; denying his wife the access to make money. Other findings bother on the issue of some husbands not taking care of their wives; the situation where a husband carries his wife’s belongings and locks them in a room; a husband forbidding the wife to give her own opinion in discussions; the aspect of hitting and using of abusive words on a woman etc. In Onye a na-eche, the study identifies that some situations are only for men to handle, for they are above women; also, most men do not like the women to say or go contrary to the order given by them. Finally, there are men who raise their hands on women. The researchers conclude that it is really the excessive use or abuse of power by men that implies chauvinism.

KEYWORDS: Male Chauvinism, C. N. Okebalama’s ? d? ?k? na mba, Onye a na-eche