Palestinian literature and film in a postcolonial feminist perspective / Rhetorics of belonging: nation, narration, and Israel/Palestine

Evelyn Waugh is commonly said to be a misogynist. However, his stance toward women was ambiguous. For, though he presents a male world in his fiction and his racialist tendencies, Eurocentricism and class consciousness almost always color his attitude toward women, he also provides the reader with some challenging roles for women. This is echoed in his depiction of the „sexed subaltern‟ who often belongs to categories such as Oriental, colonized, non-white and underclass women. The female subaltern, then, is arguably triply colonized, this time by the author. Working from a postcolonial feminist perspective, in the present article an attempt is made to portray the complicity of racism, sexism, colonialism, and even the first world Feminism in the discourse of Western Imperialism in making the colonized women more colonized. To serve this end, representations of Wauvian women in A Handful of Dust, Black Mischief and Scoop are explored to shed light on, firstly, Waugh‟s attempt to colonize all women literarily and secondly, his biased attitude toward the non-western women as alterity.

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Representasi Penindasan Ganda dalam Novel Mirah Dari Banda; Perspektif Feminisme Poskolonial

Jurnal POETIKA ◽

10.22146/poetika.v4i1.13310 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 3

Author(s):

Awla Akbar Ilma

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Women ◽

Feminist Perspective ◽

The Novel ◽

Multiple Forms ◽

Japanese Colonial ◽

Postcolonial Feminist

This study specifically examines the multiple forms of oppression that is found in the novel Mirah dari Banda by postcolonial feminist perspective. The analysis showed that the novel talk about inferior position of women as a result of the dominance of Dutch and Japanese colonial system and patriarchal domination both colonial and indigenous men. With the two forms of oppression Thus, indigenous women suffer and the lowest level in a colonial situation. Associated with the time of publication, the 1980 novel Mirah dari Banda include nostalgia novel of oppression and the strug gle against colonialism. Thus at the same nostalgic attitude can be regarded as a reflection on the possibility of the presence of the double oppression of women today which synonymous with the era of capitalism (imperialism) and still rooted patriarchal ideology.Penelitian ini secara khusus mengkaji bentuk-bentuk penindasan ganda yang terdapat dalam novel Mirah dari Banda berdasarkan perspektif feminisme poskolonial. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa novel mewacanakan kedudukan inferior perempuan akibat dominasi sistem kolonialisme Belanda dan Jepang serta dominasi patriarki baik lelaki kolonial maupun pribumi. Melalui dua bentuk penindasan demikian, perempuan pribumi menderita dan berada di level terendah dalam situasi kolonial. Terkait dengan waktu penerbitannya, yakni tahun 1980 novel Mirah dari Banda termasuk novel nostalgia atas penindasan dan perjuangan melawan kolonialisme. Sikap nostalgia demikian sekaligus dapat dianggap sebagai refleksi atas kemungkinan hadirnya penindasan penindasan ganda terhadap perempuan saat ini yang identik dengan era kapitalisme (imperialisme) dan masih mengakarnya ideologi patriarki.

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A postcolonial feminist dystopia: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Ars Aeterna ◽

10.2478/aa-2021-0004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 57-67

Author(s):

Adam Briedik

Keyword(s):

Science Fiction ◽

British Empire ◽

Margaret Atwood ◽

Feminist Perspective ◽

Colonial Discourse ◽

Canadian Identity ◽

Ethical Concerns ◽

Postcolonial Criticism ◽

The Past ◽

Postcolonial Feminist

Abstract Postcolonial criticism offers a radically new platform for the interpretation of science fiction texts. Mostly preoccupied with the themes of alien other and interstellar colonization, the genre of sci-fi breaths with colonial discourse and postcolonial tropes and imagery. Although Margaret Atwood rejects the label of science fiction writer, her dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) explores similar ethical concerns to the anti-conquest narratives of postcolonial authors. Atwood’s identification of Canadian identity as a victim of the former British Empire is challenged by her introduction of a female character rejecting their postcolonial subjugated identity in a patriarchal society. Her variation on dystopian concerns is motivated by sexuality, and her characters are reduced to objects of colonial desire with no agency. The protagonist, Offred, endures double colonization from the feminist perspective; yet, in terms of postcolonial criticism, Attwood’s character of Offred is allowed to reconstruct her subaltern identity through her fragmented narration of the past and speak in an authoritative voice. The orality of her narration only confirms the predisposition of the text to interpretation in the same terms as postcolonial fiction.

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