It concludes that there is a compelling need for contemporary female African novelists to give a fair representation of men in their novels. The study demonstrates that Nawal El Sadaawi, like other reviewed African female novelists, gives an exaggerated negative and unfair representation of men in Woman at Point Zero. The radical feminist theory provides the theoretical framework. With a particular reference to Nawal El Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero, it examines how several female African novelists have demonised men in their novels. However, not much study has been done on how the feminist-oriented female African novelists have deliberately demonised and bestialised the male characters in their novels in order to get even with the male novelists. In response to the proclivity of male African novelists to relegate women to the background in their novels, many female African novelists have exposed the phallic nature of the African society in their novels. Characters See a complete list of the characters in Woman at Point Zero and in-depth analyses of Nawal El Sadaawi, Firdaus, Uncle, and Sharifa. It was followed in 1976 by God Dies by the Nile and in 1977 by The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World. Studies abound on the phallic nature of African literature. Woman at Point Zero is a novel by Nawal El Saadawi that was first published in 1975. Her most famous novel, Woman at Point Zero was published in Beirut in 1973.
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