Or01110 creative writings are developing fasl. H owever, th e critical studies conducted arernfar beh ind. More speci ficall y, c ri tical studi es conducted in the area of port raya l of womenrnarc not ex haustive. The objective of th is study is to critica lly examine four se lectedrnnovels in AFlI/ Oro1l10, namely Hmvwii (2003), Klll/saa Gadoo ( 1991 ), Illaa (2007), andrnDhoksaa Jireeuyaa (201 I) from femini st perspecti ve. Textual analysis has beenrnemployed as it best fits to this study. Using tex tual analys is, contents of the texts or theirrnstructure and di scourse are closely examined.rnFeminist deconstructionist approach is used to analyze the selected novels. It is used tornexamine female characters in the selected novels with regard to notions such as arnwoman's body, subject/object, motherhood and knowledge. With respect to motherhood,rnmost female characters are fou nd out to osc illate between the rewards of giving birth andrnits constrictio n, which deconstrllcrs notions of insti tution al motherhood. Fema lerncharacters such as Chaltu , in lIIaa are shown to be mothers who assume both insti llitionalrnmotherhood and mothcrhood as a choice. Although body parts of female characters arerndominant ly dep icted as object of gaze, under some situati ons, fema le characters use theirrnbody for surviva l lI nder difficul t li fe co ndi tions (Yadashi , in Kllllsaa Gadoo, Aster inrnDhoksaa Jireeuyaa and Saartu in [I faa). Fema le characters are also fou nd out to osci ll aternin the continuum be tween subject and object because of economic, soc ial, cu ltural andrninstitutional forces. As to knowledge, the not ion that assigns male characters to rati onal,rnknowledgeable and that ass igns female characte rs to irrational and nOllk nowkdgernIIIrnpos ition is deconstructed and some fema le characters such as Yadash i in KULIsaa Cadoo,rnarc fOllnd out to win male characters, using an argument in the court of justice.rnComparative analys is made has shown that in llIaa the novcl by female writer RahimarnJohar femini st issues are valorized more as compared to the other novels by male authors.rnFrom the texts of male authors, Esayas' Hawwii attempts to give enough space to femalerncharacters than Abdi's Dhoksaa Jireenyaa and Gadissa's KULIsaa Cadoo.rnIn the life of the female characters, the social and economic spaces are the causes for thernpsychi c space to be created in them which make them the center of multi ple contendingrnforces.