scholarly journals “O divino para mim é real”: Divinity, Maternity and Jouissance in A Paixão Segundo G.H.

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Peery
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Spatial Features ◽  
Textual Representation ◽  
Alternative Reading

In an analysis of the linguistic, feminine and spatial features of Clarice Lispector’s A paixão segundo G.H., this article proposes an alternative reading of the text as an aesthetic treatise on the gendered female body and female sexuality. Contemplating the textual occurrences of Freudian and Lacanian jouissance, I trace the protagonist’s physical trajectory in the spatial dimension of her apartment. Through an analysis of the etymological ties between Christ’s πασχειn to G.H.’s paixão, textual similarities to Joyce and religious linguistic wordplay, I demonstrate the particularly biological and feminized specificities of G.H.’s passion. Drawing from the theoretical work of Kristeva, Cixous and Irigaray, I suggest that G.H. both supports and refutes the Freudian paradigm of female sexuality. Through a discursive and structural analysis, this article will also make a case for a reading of the novel as the textual representation of female autoeroticism and poetic climax. 

scholarly journals KONSTRUKSI SEKSUALITAS PEREMPUAN DALAM KEINDAHAN DAN KESEDIHAN KARYA YASUNARI KAWABATA

sarasvati ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Agung Pranoto ◽  
Rini Damayanti
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Sexual Desire ◽  
Sexual Desires ◽  
The Subject

This research examines the construction of female sexuality in the novel the beauty and sorrow of the works of Yasunari Kawabata. This research is qualitative research that does study of novel the beauty and sorrow of the works of Yasunari Kawabrata. The method used is the deskiptif method that is collecting data, clarification of data, manipulate data, and interpret the data in accordance with the theory that was used at the time the research was conducted. In the novel the beauty and sorrow of the works of Yasunari Kawabata, reflecting the construction of female sexuality. The construction of female sexuality that, first, the novel represents the female body through the figures. The representation of the female body in the text of the novel disegmentasikan by displaying the marker women sexy. Second, the representation of female sexual desire in the novel beauty and Sadness is presented through the desire character Otoko and Keiko to transmit sexual desires with her partner. Third, representations of female sexuality in the relation of beauty and sadness, by Yasunari Kawabata was still predominantly on the male as the subject.

French Women, Italian Art, and Other “Advocates of the Body” in Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing

2010 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Z. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Religious Paintings ◽  
Italian Art

Displays of sanctified eroticism in The Minister's Wooing reveal Harriet Beecher Stowe's conviction that the body is inherently holy. The author's experience of religious paintings and her observation of French women in Europe deepened her belief that the female body is an instrument of spirituality, as can be traced in the novel.

scholarly journals Oppression and Female Body: A Feminist Critique of the Novel 'Half the Sky'

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Ayesha Khaliq ◽  
Mamona Yasmin Khan ◽  
Rabia Hayat
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
The Body ◽  
Feminist Critique ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Interpretive Paradigm ◽  
A Site ◽  
Body Theory

The female body is more than often used as a site to perpetuate violence and oppress women in patriarchal societies. The current study aims to explore how patriarchal oppression targets the female body and how it enforces women to become subalterns having no voice in the selected fictional work, Half the Sky by Kristoff and WuDunn. For this purpose, Simone De Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) and Bryan Turner's The Body theory (1984) are used as theoretical frameworks to explore the selected novel. The research is descriptive qualitative, and placed within the interpretive paradigm. The data for the present study is in the form of textual paragraphs, which is taken from the selected novel and is collected through the purposive sampling technique. The study argues on women's oppression and violence. The findings of the study revealed that the dominancy of male counterpart in every field of life is the basic reason for women oppression which leads to the women being subalterns.

scholarly journals ANALISIS NILAI MORAL NOVEL ANAK SEJUTA BINTANG KARYA AKMAL NASERY BASRAL

Pujangga ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Maguna Eliastuti
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Moral Value

<p>ABSTRACT<br />The purpose of this study was to determine and describe the content of the analysis of empirical data<br />about the moral value of the novel Anak Sejuta Bintang. The method used in this research is qualitative<br />method with a moral approach, focusing the study of structural analysis in the study of literature that<br />focuses on the content of moral analysis contained in the novel "Children of a Million Stars" by Akmal<br />Nasery Basral. These results indicate that the presence of other aspects of good morality. Good moral<br />tendency to researchers encountered in the novel Anak Sejuta Bintang by Akmal Nasery Basral of the<br />overall findings of value<br />Keywords : novel, Aanak Sejuta Bintang</p>

scholarly journals The Prisoner of Gender:  Panopticon, Persuasion, and Surveillance of Women in Kavita Kané’s Menaka’s Choice

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Meenakshi Meenakshi ◽  
Nagendra Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Central Position ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Disciplinary System

In the mythology-inspired novel Menaka’s Choice (2016), Kavita Kané discovers that the female body is continuously perceived both as an object of sexual desire and as an individual being by disrupting the conventional understanding of Apsara Menaka. Using Foucault’s concept of docile bodies and organic individuality the paper studies how power, in the form of ‘system’, imposes docility on women’s bodies. The paper weaves the potential for feminist thought as the novel rediscovers the recondite experiences that have been shrouded for centuries by giving central position to silent agents of Hindu mythology. Eventually, it attempts to analyse the act of seduction from the context of gender and how the individual tries to resist that disciplinary system.

Pregnant Men

2019 ◽  
pp. 102-122
Author(s):  
Michael Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Comparative Anatomy ◽  
Test Tube ◽  
Djuna Barnes ◽  
Male Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Classical Literature

Chapter 5 investigates the idea of biofuturity within modernism, focusing specifically on the figure of male maternity in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood and in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. Although the figure of the pregnant male occurs in ancient and classical literature it surfaces significantly among modernist works—Apollinaire’s Les Mamelles de Tiresias, Marinetti’s Mafarka the Futurist, Joyce’s Ulysses, Freud’s Schreber case—at a moment when biological life was being reimagined through the optic of eugenic science and comparative anatomy. Representations of the pregnant male foreground the spectacle of reproduction loosed from its putative organic site in the female body and displace it elsewhere—the test tube, the surrogate womb, the male body, and, not insignificantly, the novel. This displacement is both a queering and cripping of normative attitudes toward reproductive health and the futures that such embodiment implies.

“La marquise sortit à cinq heures”

PMLA ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 1644-1648
Author(s):  
Albert Chesneau
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Present Tense ◽  
Nouveau Roman ◽  
The Ideal

Simple structural analysis applied to passages cited from the works of André Breton elucidates the reasons for his condemnation of the statement La marquise sortit à cinq heures (see his Manifeste du surréalisme, 1924) as non-poetic. This study demonstrates the opposition existing between the above-mentioned realist sentence, essentially non-subjective (third-person subject), non-actual (past tense predicate), contextual (context can be supposed), and prosaic (lack of imagery), and on the other hand a theoretic surrealist sentence, essentially subjective (first-person subject), actual (present tense predicate), and non-contextual, producing a shock-image. In reality, Breton's surrealistic phrase does not always contain all of these qualities at once. However, in contrast to the condemned phrase which contains none at all, it does always manifest at least one of these characteristics, the most important having reference to the evocative power of the shock-image. A final comparison with a sentence quoted from Robbe-Grillet, the theoretician of the “nouveau roman”, proves that even though it may appear objective, the surrealist phrase is really not so. In conclusion, the four characteristics of the ideal surrealist sentence—subjectivity, actuality, non-contextuality, and ability to produce shock-images—create a poetics of discontinuity opposed to the classical art of narration as found traditionally in the novel. (In French)

Marrying Mesopotamia: Female Sexuality and Cultural Resistance in Iamblichus' Babylonian Tales

Ramus ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Morales
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Sexual Relationship ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Cultural Resistance ◽  
Mistaken Identity ◽  
Ancient Novel ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Extreme Violence ◽  
Female Homoeroticism

Iamblichus'Babylonian Tales, whose extravagant adventures of female homoeroticism, extreme violence and mistaken identity sit uneasily alongside those told in the so-called ‘ideal’ Greek novels, is a work largely ignored by scholars of the ancient novel, or relegated to discussions of ‘fringe literature’ We are not helped by the fact that the novel survives only in fragments and through the critical summary by the Byzantine scholar Photius, in his collection of epitomes calledBibliotheca. This article attempts a fresh analysis ofBabylonian Tales, taking as its starting point the sexual relationship between two of its female characters and moving on to discuss the politics of the novel and its self-positioning in relation to Rome and Roman conquest. It argues thatBabylonian Taleschallenges some of the rather neat stories that are currently told about the Greek novels, and that moving it from the ‘fringe’ to the centre might radically alter how we think about the genre.

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