Essays about: "Female narrators"

Found 4 essays containing the words Female narrators.

  1. 1. Imaginary Specters, Imagined Listeners: The Undecidable in Graham Swift's Tomorrow and Mothering Sunday

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Rebecca Weiger; [2021]
    Keywords : Swift; Female narrators; Specters; Silence; Derrida; Undecidability;

    Abstract : This paper aims to investigate the possible connection between specters and silence in Graham Swift’s Tomorrow (2007) and Mothering Sunday (2016). In both novels, the protagonists predominantly speak in interior monologues, recounting the memories and secrets that haunt them, in what could be construed as an attempt to exorcise the ghosts of their past. READ MORE

  3. 2. Gender and Sexuality on Gethen : A Contemporary Analysis of Ursula K le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Ellen Andersson; [2020]
    Keywords : gender; sexuality; Ursula K Le Guin; The Left Hand of Darkness; science fiction; kön; sexualitet; Ursula K Le Guin; Mörkrets Vänstra Hand; science fiction;

    Abstract : Ursula K Le Guin wrote The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) because she wanted to explore the limitations of gender and sexuality in a way that reflected the ongoing epistemic changes in her society. She created the Gethenians, an ambisexual, androgynous species that live most of their life without an assigned sex, making their entire society lack the concept of gender. READ MORE

  4. 3. Narrative and Gender: Similarities and differences in written narratives produced from same- and opposite-gender perspective in Modern Greek

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Grekiska (nygrekiska)

    Author : Lambrini Kokkali; [2020]
    Keywords : discourse analysis; gender representation; males; females; Greek language; Greek society; narrative text; picture-story; stereotypes; story-grammars; storytelling; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Narrative and gender are both notions closely connected to culture and society. Narrative, on the one hand, is not just the art of telling stories, it carries deeper meanings, evokes feelings, and even affects our actions and interactions with one another. READ MORE

  5. 4. "Crossing the River" : the complexity of colonialism and slavery

    University essay from Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi

    Author : Mikael Bakkenberg; [2011]
    Keywords : Caryl Phillips; Crossing the River; colonialism; slavery; diversity;

    Abstract : Caryl Phillips’s novel Crossing the River deals with European colonialism and the consequences of it. Crossing the River is a novel which embraces characters from colonized cultures as well as characters from colonizing cultures. READ MORE