The Feminine Other: The Representation of Female Characters in Cao Wenxuan's Male Coming-of-Age Novels

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-301
Author(s):  
Lisa Chu Shen
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Feminine

scholarly journals Maïssa Bey : romancière de l’agentivité de femmes Entre réécriture de l’Histoire et invention de soi

Il Tolomeo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila Lamrous
Keyword(s):  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Right

The study of Maïssa Bey’s novel Surtout ne te retourne pas allows to examine how the Francophone novel represents an earthquake as a poetic, metaphorical and political shockwave. The novel is part of a literary tradition but also shows the singularity of the writing and the engagement of the Algerian novelist Maïssa Bey. It allows to examine the feminine agentivity in the context of the disaster camps in Algeria: from the ravaged space/country emerge the voices of women who enter into resistance to improvise, invent their lives and their identities. The earthquake allows them to free themselves, to take a subversive point of view at society and their status as women in an oppressive patriarchal society. The staged female characters arrogate to themselves the right to reread history and take their destiny back.

Performing Gender and Political Recognition: Israeli Reform Jewish Life-cycle Rituals

2020 ◽  
pp. 089124162096826
Author(s):  
Elazar Ben-Lulu
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Political Performance ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Reform Jewish ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
Jewish Religion

Anthropologists see life-cycle rituals as a significant way to understand gender roles and identities in religious communities. While in the past, these compulsory rituals involved a significant change in a person’s social status, today many of their traditional features have been transformed. This ethnographic inquiry examines Bat Mitzvah ceremonies (coming of age rituals for girls) in Israeli Reform Jewish congregations. By including new blessings, appropriating masculine religious symbols, and creating new bodily gestures, the feminine life-cycle ritual challenges the traditional Jewish laws and contemporary socio-cultural constructions of the Israeli Jewish community. The exclusion of the Israeli Reform community from mainstream Jewish religion turns this ritual into a subversive act that battles local Jewish Orthodoxy authority. The ceremony is a political performance, which positions the Reform congregations as an activist religious agent for gender equality in the Israeli public space.

scholarly journals The Hysteric Belongs to Me: Helen Oyeyemi’s The Opposite House

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 45-63
Author(s):  
Noémi Albert
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Long Time

The term hysteria has undergone several substantial changes throughout its history. A charged concept, deemed for a long time as pejorative and offensive to womanhood, it has lately been re-appropriated for literature under the concept of the “hysterical narrative.” This new trend purports to redeem hysteria and, together with it, redeem the feminine and show all its complexity. Helen Oyeyemi’s 2007 novel, The Opposite House, conflates the private and the public in two female characters, one human, the other divine. Through this double perspective the work self-reflexively re-evaluates hysteria both in the self and in the community.

scholarly journals Os perfis femininos nas narrativas de Clodoaldo Freitas

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 431-450
Author(s):  
Cleanne Nayara Galiza Colaço ◽  
Fabiana dos Santos Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Xix Century

O artigo apresenta um estudo das obras Coisas da Vida, Os Barretos, A besta humana e Mãe dolorosa, de Clodoaldo Freitas, com ênfase na análise das personagens femininas. Com isso, busca-se traçar os perfis femininos presentes em tais obras e notar a punição sofrida por aquelas que transgrediram os padrões da sociedade do século XIX. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Perfis femininos. Transgressão. Século XIX. Punição.   ABSTRACT The article presents a study of the works Things in life, The Barretos, The human beast and The mother in pain, by Clodoaldo Freitas, with emphasis on the analysis of female characters. With this, it sought to trace the feminine profiles present in such works and to note the punishment suffered by those who have transgressed the standards of nineteenth-century society. KEYWORDS: Female profiles. Transgression. XIX century. Punishment.

Women’s Virtue: Engendering Shame

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-155
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Mariama Ba ◽  
Buchi Emecheta ◽  
Tsitsi Dangarembga ◽  
Ama Ata Aidoo ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
The Feminine

A focus on shame and the feminine, considering how female characters and shame are linked in order to address both explicitly female concerns as well as how those concerns can stand in for larger societal issues. The chapter revisits elements from Le vieux nègre et la médaille and Les Bouts de bois de Dieu but concentrates much more on Une si longue lettre by Mariama Bâ, A River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta, Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, short stories by Ama Ata Aidoo, and Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie.

scholarly journals From Irrational to "Irr(el)ational". Sociopoetic Perspectives of the Feminine and Posthuman in Novels by Three Contemporary Women Writers (Castillon, Martinez, NDiaye)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie GUIGNARD
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Social Identification ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Feminine

This article examines representations and issues of the "irrational" in recent novels by contemporary women writers in French (Claire Castillon, Carole Martinez and Marie NDiaye). It examines how the irrational imaginary specific to these works, which is built up through the sensitivity of female characters, raises issues that concern not only the affective construction of the protagonists but also the social identification, the relations of human-beings and the hierarchy of powers. Specific implications of the irrational regarding gendered hierarchy and affecting women in particular are discussed. The analysis shows how the irrational is constructed as the transformation of a traumatic social experience of the protagonists.

scholarly journals The Effect of Gender on the Verbal Proceses of Ideational Metafunction in Missing Soluch and Suvashun

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Forugh Sahba ◽  
Zahra Gharbi
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Cultural Stereotypes ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Verbal Processes

Gender linguistics focuses on the diversity of male and female’s speech. In functional grammar, it is assumed that language expresses individuals’ worldview and ideology through the ideational metafunction. Considering gender and worldview, each individual uses a particular manner of expression which shows his/her thoughts, feelings, and experiences. The present study, focusing on the ideational metafunction, compares and explains the frequency and manner of using verbal processes such as “command and order”, “expressing emotions and feelings”, “swearing and insulting”, “damn and curse”, through considering the gender of the authors and the characters of their novels: Missing Soluch and Suvashun. The results indicated that the speaker and addressee’s gender are the most influential factors in verbal differences, which, by its own account, is affected by the atmosphere of the story. In fact, the power and the superior social status of men allow them to use more imperious, hostile, and impolite verbal processes. In addition, the feminine emotions and fragility, the fear raised from an inferior position in the community, and the cultural stereotypes dominating the setting of the story demanded the female characters to be obedient and silent, and sometimes use damn and curse.

scholarly journals If I didn´t care, one more kiss [feat_ 2019’s “She (and the space of painting)”]

Revista Farol ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 10-22
Author(s):  
Isabel Sabino
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Art Theory ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Pictorial Space ◽  
The Feminine

The 2019 text entitled “She (and the space of painting)”, produced in a parallel creative process for a painting exhibition, focuses on contemporary art theory, film, female characters, literature, poetry, music and, especially, on pictorial space from the feminine perspective. Now, it is reissued here, choosing one of the paintings made, already exposed, and a song underlying it as symptomatic of the perspective of confinement by the pandemic crisis.

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