“I am his pawn, his slave and his property”: A stylistic analysis of the abuse of women in Amma Darko's beyond the horizon

In Beyond the horizon, Amma Darko uses words in unique ways to bring subject of gender representations and abuse women fore. Employing a stylistics framework analysis, this study investigates text’s parallelisms deviations, interprets uncovers implied underlying meanings issues related novel. The analysis reveals how through patterned repetitions sentences, as well some language deviations text, men physically, emotionally, sexually economically. paper shows that use repetition such metaphor simile, struggles unequal relationships between “pawn”, “slave” “property” (largely represented by Mara) on one hand, “master”, “lord” “pimp” (represented Akobi, Oves Osey) other hand.