Essays about: "Karl-Johan Skagerström"

Found 1 essay containing the words Karl-Johan Skagerström.

  1. 1. The “defiant but insane look of a species once dominant” – The Problems of Emancipation in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Karl-Johan Skagerström; [2014]
    Keywords : Surfacing; Margaret Atwood; Gender; Hegemonic Masculinity; Emphasized Femininity; Complicity; Male Dominance; Identity; Power; Patriarchy; Feminism; Sexual Division of Labor; The Symbolic; Language;

    Abstract : Margaret Atwood’s novel Surfacing has received considerable critical attention on the issue of “a positive female identity” in a patriarchal society. However, given Atwood’s own stress on the fact that the novel is about the ways both genders work in relation to each other, this criticism has lacked in scrutiny of the novel’s male characters. READ MORE