This article refutes the common claim that Chinua Achebe does not represent women as active participants in his fictional communities until in his fifth novel, Anthills of the Savannah . Such criticism neglects women’s contestations of male-dominated political and aesthetic representation in A Man of the People . Readings of that novel routinely foreground the political foibles of the unreliable narrator while overlooking how his traumatic encounter with female agency shapes his narrative. By focusing on the protagonist’s repression of women’s agency, I suggest his swerve into a narrative of national politics results from a profound inability to accept women’s demands for multiple forms of recognition. A Man of the People explores obstructions to African feminism and sexual politics. As such, it ought to be read alongside the fiction of Flora Nwapa, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Tsitsi Dangarembga.

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遗漏的性别：奇努阿·阿契贝的《人民的男人》中模糊的女权主义

这篇文章驳斥了一种普遍的说法，即直到在他的第五部小说《萨凡纳的蚁丘》中，Chinua Achebe 才将女性描绘成他虚构社区的积极参与者。这种批评忽略了《人民的男人》中女性对男性主导的政治和审美表征的争论。阅读那部小说通常会突出不可靠叙述者的政治弱点，同时忽略他与女性代理的创伤性遭遇如何塑造他的叙述。通过关注主人公对女性能动性的压制，我建议他转向国家政治的叙事是由于无法接受女性对多种形式认可的要求。《人民的男人》探讨了非洲女权主义和性政治的障碍。因此，