Abstract
Maaza Mengiste's Beneath the Lion's Gaze (London: Vintage, 2010) is a fictional reconstruction of the collapse of two ruthless regimes in Ethiopia: the monarchy of Emperor Haile Selassie and the subsequent socialist military junta called the Derg. The focus of this article is on Mengiste's narrative liberation strategies in the novel, and especially on how she inserts the role of women in nationalist processes. Drawing on insights from nationalist-feminist scholarship, the article examines the literary representations of female agency in the novel, highlighting the way feminist agency intersects with revolutionary nationalism.
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