• Dr. Nidhi

Ngugi's Devil on the Cross (1982) has often been hailed by critics like Stratton as the female bildungsroman, another path-breaking milestone through which Ngugi has been able to break fresh grounds and provide literary impetus to the African Resistance discourse by his conscious concern for resituating the woman as a subject of history. In his Prison Diary he states about his commitment to the feminist agenda when he asserts "... Wariinga heroine of toil ... there she walks haughtily carrying her freedom in her hands...". Later he sheds more light on his feminist concerns by saying:

REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN THE NOVEL OF NGUGI'S WA THIONG'O:DEVIL ON THE CROSS

"REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN NGUGI WA THIONGO’S DEVIL ON THE CROSS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.2, Issue 4, page no.2006-2008, April-2015, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1506156.pdf

"REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN NGUGI WA THIONGO’S DEVIL ON THE CROSS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.2, Issue 4, page no. pp2006-2008, April-2015, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1506156.pdf