This article looks at two early Ghanaian novels, A. Nativeâs Marita: or the Folly of Love (serialized in 1886-88) and R.E. Obengâs Eighteenpence (1943), which portray conjugal life in colonial Ghana during a time of legislative and judicial transition. They deal with ways in which both the colonial administration and traditional authorities attempted to regulate the contested arena of marriage. The novels create the impression that such external controls freed married women from traditional restraints and turned them into deviant wives who asserted their own interests, overturned gender norms and undermined their husbandsâ authority in private and in public. We argue that far from liberating women, the external control of marital affairs left women bereft of traditional support systems and therefore dependent on, and submissive to, men. We conclude that an underlying male angst is responsible for the representation of wives in both novels, as well as for the textsâ silencing of resistant women.View full textDownload full textKeywordsGhana, colonialism, judicial transition, marriage, gender, womenâs resistanceRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2011.629126
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机译：本文着眼于加纳的两本早期小说，《 A。Native's Marita：or Folly of Love》（于1886-88年序列化）和R.E。奥本的《十八便士》（1943年）描述了在立法和司法过渡时期加纳殖民地的夫妻生活。他们处理殖民地行政当局和传统当局试图规范有争议的婚姻舞台的方式。这些小说给人的印象是，这种外部控制使已婚妇女摆脱了传统的束缚，使他们变成了主张自己的利益，推翻性别规范并破坏了丈夫在私人和公共场所的权威的妻子。我们认为，婚姻事务的外部控制远非解放妇女，而是使妇女丧失了传统的支持系统，因此依赖并顺从男人。我们得出的结论是，潜在的男性焦虑是这两种小说中妻子的代表，以及文本中对抵抗妇女的沉默。查看全文下载全文关键字加纳，殖民主义，司法过渡，婚姻，性别，女性resistanceRelated var addthis_config = {ui_cobrand：“泰勒和弗朗西斯在线”，servicescompact：“ citeulike，netvibes，twitter，technorati，delicious，linkedin，facebook，stumbleupon，digg，google，更多”，发布号：“ ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b”};添加到候选列表链接永久链接http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2011.629126
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