Reversal of Gender Roles in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Visit
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Writers assemble words to tell the story, develop the argument, dramatize the play or compose the poem in the process the themes which a reader finds convincing are developed. Flora Nwapa and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are African women writers from the East of Nigeria who have used the literary art at their disposal to portray women’s experiences in the contemporary world. Although Nwapa is the first African woman writer, the experiences of women she portrayed in Efuru are reversed in Adichie’s The Visit. Gender roles are reversed thus challenging the patriarchal roles of a woman placed as the head of the home, she works to earn for her husband and children, no housemaid and no sexual abuse is suspected at home. The literary techniques used include among others motif, tone, point of view, imagery, local colour, and songs. These techniques are used comparatively and it is discovered that they are apt in revealing women’s experiences in the novels. The literary theory used in this research is eclectic.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".