Living as a Second-Class Self: Patriarchy, Domestic Tyranny, and Female Silencing in SecondClass Citizen

Author(s)	Ms. Sanobar Haque
Country	India
Abstract	Abstract: Buchi Emecheta through her writings shows how oppression never arrives alone; rather, it comes piling up in the form of culture, gender, and race collectively. She writes and highlights the struggle as an activist, even when she does not claim herself to be the one. She belongs to a lineage of Black feminist voices that refuse the assumed centrality. In the Second-Class Citizen through the protagonist, Adah, the author highlights the strength that lies in the small moments, ordinary lives, and daily pressures of women learning to endure, resist, and survive not just as a theory but rather as a lived experience of speaking back and defying the rigid hierarchies rooted in African tradition. Thus, the paper questions the norms of gender socialisation in indigenous and metropolitan spaces where nothing is spared from the white-imposed denigration of Black identity in the Eurocentric norm.
Keywords	Key words: Oppression, Culture, Gender, Race and Black identity
Field	Arts
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On	2026-03-07

About IJFMR Fees & Payment Current Issue Publication Archive	Submit Research Paper Track Submission Status Publication Guidelines Publication Ethics Peer Review & Plagiarism	Join as a Reviewer Editors & Reviewers Reviewer Referral Program Get Reviewer Membership Certi.	Website/Journal Policies Usage Policy Content Policies Privacy Policy

Contact Us		+91-9687-828-838	editor@ijfmr.com

International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research