Essays about: "feminist literary critique"

Found 5 essays containing the words feminist literary critique.

1. 1. Enforcing Patriarchal Values : A socialist feminist analysis of the characters of Offred and Serena Joy in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Andrea Jonsson; [2018]
   Keywords : Margaret Atwood; The Handmaid’s Tale; dystopia; feminism; socialist feminism; color symbolism; Margaret Atwood; Tjänarinnans berättelse; dystopi; feminism; socialistisk feminism; färgsymbolik;

   Abstract : This essay shows how Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) functions as a critique of patriarchal society as it depicts a dystopic, dismantled society where women are divided into societal groups on biological grounds. Based on socialist feminist literary theory, an analysis is carried out of two of the female characters, Offred and Serena Joy, who are both oppressed by a patriarchal, totalitarian government; an oppression that is manifested in different ways. READ MORE

3. 2. Gender Construction in Alice Munro´s Writing A Comparative Study of Early and Late Stories

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Charlotta Wessman; [2015-02-18]
   Keywords : Gender construction; women´s mothering; the feminist quest; Alice Munro;

   Abstract : Abstract: It is civilization, and not biology, that constructs gender. The formation of children into gendered adults is made “naturally” by invisible societal structures and is consequently troublesome to reveal. READ MORE

4. 3. On Sublimity and the Excessive Object in Trans Women's Contemporary Writing

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Author : Andria Nyberg Forshage; [2015]
   Keywords : aesthetics; becoming; erasure; excessive object; feminine sublime; feminist aesthetics; literary theory; monstrosity; sublimity; transgender theory; trans women s writing; transmisogyny; unrepresentability;

   Abstract : This thesis examines trans women's contemporary writing in relation to a theory of the excessive object, sublimity, transmisogyny and minor literature. In doing so, this text is influenced by Susan Stryker's work on monstrosity, abjection and transgender rage in the article “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” (1994). READ MORE

5. 4. Finding Dystopia in Utopia : Gender, Power and Politics in The Carhullan Army

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Johan Kisro; [2014]
   Keywords : Sarah Hall; The Carhullan Army; feminist dystopia; utopia dystopia; power knowledge; Michel Foucault;

   Abstract : Sarah Hall’s feminist dystopia The Carhullan Army presents a near-future society by using oppositional binaries traditional to the genre of the literary dystopia; Utopia/Dystopia, Male/Female, and Good/Evil. This essay deconstructs these binaries in order to unveil the inherent complexities in power structures that cannot be captured by such binaries. READ MORE

6. 5. "Gender and Genre" : A Feminist Exploration of the Bildungsroman in A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man and Martha Quest

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Camilla Brändström; [2009]
   Keywords : Bildungsroman; development; adolescence; Bildung; identity; independence; feminist literary critique; Doris Lessing; James Joyce.;

   Abstract : The predominant focus on the male protagonist in the Bildungsroman genre has provoked feminist critics to offer a re-definition of the genre, claiming that the female protagonist's development differs in significant ways from the traditionally expected course of development (i.e. male). READ MORE