Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism, and: Women of the Future: The Female Main Character in Science Fiction (review)

1985 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 470-471
Author(s):  
Victoria Aarons
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
The Future ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Reclaiming Histories/Rewriting Destinies: Mrs. Woolf and Orlando in Unearthing the Buried

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Milica Nenezić
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Stable Structure ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
The Past ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
Strange Particles ◽  
The Future ◽  
Structural Theories ◽  
Living Creature

History is usually written by the winners; those who lose retain their own. The extent to which these differ and whether the differences affect the fate of mankind are all issues that require constant rendering and re-examination. The future confidently retains the answers, but do these answers change the circumstances? Can philosophy, feminist literary criticism or post-structural theories obscure the meaning of fiction? We are composed of strange particles that create our being and identity, which does not likely pave the way to our becoming true by solely ‘static’ existence, but by one that unites the past, present and the future. Such particles placed on the platform of literary expression sometimes have the character of a more permanent testimony to history, either written, or tobe-written. One figure, who struggled to raise our awareness and to remind us that the essay can represent a dialogue, that the reader carries special importance and a role in both the creation and reception of artistic skills, yet that language and meaning do not have a stable structure, was Virginia Adeline Stephen Woolf, who was rewriting and reclaiming both individual and common histories. Reflecting on the dilemmas and perplexities of both historical and fictional structural norms in literature, Mrs. Woolf unobtrusively portrayed an androgynous and ever-living creature in her novel Orlando, who seeks, among other feats, to re-evaluate the importance of witnessing and re-examining history

scholarly journals Citra Wanita Tokoh Utama Rani Novel Cerita Tentang Rani Karya Herry Santoso Kajian Kritik Sastra Feminis

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
Hasindah Mawarni ◽  
Sumartini Sumartini
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Social Image ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
The Family

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui citra wanita dalam sebuah novel karya Herry Santoso berjudul Cerita Tentang Rani. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah feminisme dan dikaji menggunakan kritik sastra feminis. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu metode deskripsi kualitataif. Adapun permasalahan yang muncul dalam penelitian ini adalah bagaimana citra wanita tokoh utama Rani yang terdapat dalam novel Cerita Tentang Rani karya Herry Santoso. Dalam artikel ini, ditemukan citra tokoh utama Rani meliputi, citra diri dan citra sosial. Citra diri wanita terdiri dari aspek fisik dan psikis, dalam aspek fisik tokoh Rani digambarkan sebagai wanita muda yang cantik dan sudah berkeluarga, seorang wanita yang pandai memasak serta berpenampilan menarik. Dalam aspek psikis Rani digambarkan sebagai wanita yang kuat, tegas, berani, penyanyang keluarga, berani berpendapat yang dianggap benar, selalu bersikap patuh, sabar dan patuh pada perintah suaminya. Sedangkan, citra sosial terdiri dari citra dalam keluarga dan citra dalam masyarakat. Citra dalam keluarga tokoh utama Rani berperan sebagai seorang istri, anak dan anggota keluarga yang penuh tanggungjawab, menyanyi orangtua. Sedangkan, citra dalam masyarakat Rani berperan sebagai wanita yang aktif, tegas dan disiplin, peduli, bertanggungjawab atas tugasnya sebagai seorang guru. The purpose of this research is to find out the image of women in a novel by Herry Santoso entitled Story About Rani. As for the problem that arises in this research is how the image of the main character Rani is contained in Cerita Tentang Rani Herry Santoso'snovel. The approach used in this study is feminism and studied using feminist literary criticism. The research method used is the quality description method. In this article, the image of Rani's main characters is found, including self-image and social image. Women's self-image consists of physical and psychological aspects, in the physical aspects of the character Rani is described as a beautiful young woman and has a family, a woman who is good at cooking and attractive appearance. In psychic aspects, Rani is described as a woman who is strong, firm, brave, family, daring to think that she is right, always being obedient, patient and obedient to her husband's orders. Whereas, social image consists of images in the family and images in society. The image in the family of the main character Rani acts as a wife, child and family members who are full of responsibility, singing parents. Meanwhile, the image in the Rani community acts as a woman who is active, assertive and disciplined, caring, responsible for her duties as a teacher.  

scholarly journals Ursula K. Leguin, o relatos para una puesta en escena distinta

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Susana Matallana
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
United States Literature

Resumen: Reconociendo la importancia de los relatos para la imagenque las mujeres se formarán de sí mismas, se plantea lanecesidad de acometer la tarea feminista de ir en busca denuevos relatos, de nuevos argumentos, que nos permitanreescribir la vida de las mujeres como protagonistas. En estaperspectiva se presenta el trabajo literario de Ursula K. Leguin,reconocida por la crítica como autora una de las mejores prosasde la literatura norteamericana contemporánea, y cuya obraha sido catalogada como ciencia-ficción social, ya que trabajael género de la ciencia ficción de tal modo que éste sirve comocomentario social.Palabras clave: Literatura norteamericana, Crítica literariafeminista, Ciencia ficción, Ursula K. LeguinAbstract:Recognizing the importance of stories for the image womenwill form of themselves, this study asserts the need to take onthe feminist task of searching for new stories, new plots, thatwill allow us to rewrite women’s lives as protagonists. In thisperspective, the literary work of Ursula K. Leguin is presented,an author recognized by critics as writer of some of the bestprose in US literature today, and whose work is catalogued associal science fiction, since she works the genre of science fictionin such a way that it serves as social commentary.Key words: United States literature, feminist literary criticism,science fiction, Ursula K. LeGuin

scholarly journals From Feminization of Fiction to Feminine Metafiction in Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters and Woolf’s Orlando

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wassila Hamza Reguig-Mouro
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
Literature History ◽  
Women’S Writing

Feminism developed and widened its scope to different disciplines such as literature, history, and sociology. It is associated with various other schools and theories like Marxism and poststructuralism, as well. In the field of literature, feminist literary criticism managed to throw away the dust that cumulated on women’s writing and succeeded in raising interest in those forgotten female artists. Some critics in the field of feminism claim that there are no separate spheres, masculine and feminine, whereas others have opted for post-feminist thinking. Some women writers used metafiction to write literary criticism. Therefore, how do Gaskell and Woolf implement metafiction in their stories? Accordingly, this work aims at shedding light on Wives and Daughters by Gaskell and Orlando by Woolf to tackle metafiction from a feminist perspective. Examples from both novels about intertextuality, narration, and other aspects, that are part of metafiction, will be provided to illustrate how and where metafiction is used.

scholarly journals From Feminization of Fiction to Feminine Metafiction in Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters and Woolf’s Orlando

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 187-201
Author(s):  
Wassila HAMZA REGUIG MOURO
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
Literature History ◽  
Women’S Writing

Feminism developed and widened its scope to different disciplines such as literature, history, and sociology. It is associated with various other schools and theories like Marxism and poststructuralism, as well. In the field of literature, feminist literary criticism managed to throw away the dust that cumulated on women’s writing and succeeded in raising interest in those forgotten female artists. Some critics in the field of feminism claim that there are no separate spheres, masculine and feminine, whereas others have opted for post-feminist thinking. Some women writers used metafiction to write literary criticism. Therefore, how do Gaskell and Woolf implement metafiction in their stories? Accordingly, this work aims at shedding light on Wives and Daughters by Gaskell and Orlando by Woolf to tackle metafiction from a feminist perspective. Examples from both novels about intertextuality, narration, and other aspects, that are part of metafiction, will be provided to illustrate how and where metafiction is used.

scholarly journals KETERDIDIKAN PEREMPUAN DAN WACANA KESETARAAN DALAM NOVEL INDONESIA PRA-BALAI PUSTAKA

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulianeta Yulianeta
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Women's Education ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Gender

This research rests on the phenomenon that literary works are not born from cultural vacuum and social emptiness. The pre-Balai Pustaka Indonesian novels mark the public's awareness of the importance of education so that it cannot be separated from its social cultural system. The issue of the importance of women's education and equality discourse has been spawned in pre-Balai Pustaka Indonesian novels. This is important to be reflected as an effort to enrich the literary treasures of Indonesia that often side-stepped pre-Balai Pustaka literary works. Three pre-Balai Pustaka Indonesia novels that raise issues of women's education and equality discourse show the concern of Indonesian authors on issues related to women's education. This research seeks to explore the discourse of equality in three pre-Balai Pustaka Indonesian novels buried in the course of Indonesian literature. Therefore, feminist literary criticism and gender perspective are used. The results of this study contribute to the world of Indonesian literature, especially the activities of Indonesian literary criticism that reflect the presence of pre-Balai Pustaka Indonesia novels for the development of literary criticism in the present time and the future.

scholarly journals CITRA PEREMPUAN DALAM NOVEL CERITA TENTANG RANI KARYA HERRY SANTOSO; TINJAUAN KRITIK SASTRA FEMINIS* (The Image of Women in the Novel Entitled Cerita Tentang Rani by Herry Santosa: A Feminist Literary Criticism)

ALAYASASTRA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Choerul Anam
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Research Types

This study aims to describe the image of women in Herry Santoso's novel: Cerita Tentang Rani in the perspective of feminist literary criticism. The method applied in the research is a qualitative one. The purpose of the qualitative method leads the writer being able to get to know the in-depth history of the research environment by applying descriptive research types. Feminist criticism theory of Rosemarie Putnam Tong and gender theory of Judith P. Butler were applied in this research. The results of this study prove that the image of the main character, Maharani, is a strong and tough woman. The images of the woman cover 1) the image of women in her relation with Allah Swt (God); 2) the image of women in her relation with herself; and 3) the image of women in her relationship with others. Keywords: female image, feminist literary criticism, Novel Cerita Tentang Rani.

Resources for a Journey of Hope: Raymond Williams on Utopia and Science Fiction

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Milner
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
Selective Tradition ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
Science Fiction Studies ◽  
The City

Raymond Williams had an enduring interest in science fiction, an interest attested to: first, by two articles specifically addressed to the genre, both of which were eventually published in the journal Science Fiction Studies; second, by a wide range of reference in more familiar texts, such as Culture and Society, The Long Revolution, George Orwell and The Country and the City; and third, by his two ‘future novels’, The Volunteers and The Fight for Manod, the first clearly science-fictional in character, the latter less so. This article will summarise this work, and will also explore how some of Williams’s more general key theoretical concepts – especially structure of feeling and selective tradition – can be applied to the genre. Finally, it will argue that the ‘sociological’ turn, by which Williams sought to substitute description and explanation for judgement and canonisation as the central purposes of analysis, represents a more productive approach to science fiction studies than the kind of prescriptive criticism deployed by other avowedly ‘neo-Marxist’ works, such as Darko Suvin’s Metamorphoses of Science Fiction and Fredric Jameson’s Archaeologies of the Future.

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