The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
The Purple Violet of Oshaantu is a novel by a Namibian writer, Neshani Andreas. The novel takes readers through the experience of rhythms and rituals of life in rural Namibia in interconnected stories. In Oshaantu, a place where women are the backbone of the home but are expected to submit to patriarchal dominance, Mee Ali is happily married.
Quotes
[edit]- Well, I'm sorry you all feel uncomfortable about mybehaviour, but I cannot pretend. I cannot lie to myself and everybody else in this village
- Page 34
- ...all know how I was treated in my marriage. Why should Icry? For what? For my broken ribs? For my baby, the one he killed inside me while beating me? For what
- Page 53
- woman can be defined by her consciousness of her own femininity no more than by saying that she is a female, for she acquires this consciousness under circumstances dependent on the society of which she is a member
- Page 44
- there is nothing to be said
- Page 37
- ...a divorce will have a really bad effect on Daddy’s preaching
- Page 67
- cannot walk among other women with her head uplifted and straight
- Page 63
- it was her fault that her husband looked at other women, It was her fault that her husband beat her
- Page 51
- can be questioned and challenged when … [they] reinforce gender inequality and other fundamental right
- Page 351