VEJOH - VERITAS JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES

Studies in the feminist movement have identified splits leading to gay and lesbian studies as protest against mainstream feminism now perceived as recreating social inequalities by its continuing privileging of heterosexual orientation as an existentialist framework defining female self and constraining social engagements for the ‘other’ minded. Queer literary analysis seeks to centralize and interrogate sexual orientation/alternative lifestyle to not only garner sympathy and end discrimination against those whose defining choices are deemed deviant but primarily, to examine the issue of identity and perceived realities. This discourse examines Emezi’s presentation of individual identity as an empowerment tool for social negotiation using the world of the Ogbanje. It highlights factors that disempower identity through contestation and containment. Further, the analysis recognizes Freshwater as a literary exercise that disrupts and destabilizes binary prism as received perception protocol on gender, sexuality, gods, and society in the quest for finding self

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