Abstract
Many drastic issues regarding the spiritual, cultural, emotional, and intellectual wounds left by the colonizers are still ravaging in many African countries. The ‘Subaltern East,’ coupled with oppressive social conditions, makes the present state of women more precarious as it has been portrayed in the novel Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The paper investigates the gender-based violence, especially domestic violence in Purple Hibiscus It as traces the sensitive role of colonial systems, religion, Patriarchal values, politics and tradition in stimulating clashes as well as their propagation for female subjugation and exploitation; domestic violence and subaltern identity of the ‘double exploited.’ Post-colonial theories and Psycho-social theories are applied to evaluate the marginalization and abuse of women.
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