scholarly journals Silencing and Breaking the Silence: Resisting Patriarchy in Brajaki’s “Annapurna’s Feast” and Thakuri’s “War”

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Nirjala Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Gendered Identity ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Resistance Theory ◽  
The Way

The aim of this paper is to analyse Manu Brajaki’s story “Annapurna’s Feast” and Maya Thakuri’s “War,” using the resistance theory. It explores the nature of resistance and its significance presented in the stories. The paper argues that both female protagonists of the stories resist injustice happened in their life due to their gendered identity as women, but the way they resist is different: one directly shows the courage and declares to fight against it whereas another silently inherits all the patriarchal value although her silence speaks out loud and gives agency to her voice. To elucidate this statement, Hollander and Rachel L. Einwohner’s concepts on resistance is used. Both stories depict the life of the housewives who are victimized due to existing patriarchal values. The female protagonist of Brajaki seems so resilient whereas Thakuri’s protagonist directly speaks out for the injustice. Both stories present the female protagonists’ silence and courage to speak out as their ways to resist and expose their difficulties to speak out.

Jean Rhys and drunken consciousness (1929–1939)

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-97
Author(s):  
Steven Earnshaw
Keyword(s):  
Jean Rhys ◽  
The Self ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Gender Consciousness ◽  
States Of Consciousness ◽  
Good Morning ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Way

Jean Rhys published four novels which have female protagonists who all drink at levels beyond those regarded as socially acceptable: Quartet (1929), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934), Good Morning, Midnight (1939). These four novels present the reader with a complex of self, consciousness, and modernity, inflected by an argument that women are forced to live differently in the world from men, and therefore experience and understand the world differently from men. One of the major achievements of the novels is the way in which they render the various states of consciousness of the female protagonist in the modern capitalist world, and this chapter considers the way in which Rhys integrates questions of gender, consciousness, modernity, alcohol and the self. Rhys’s protagonists choose their orientations as a way to define their selves and to define what is true in and about the world they inhabit. The modernist focus on alcoholic consciousness ensures a form of self-validation against a patriarchal and increasingly rationalistic society. This chapter also considers Rhys’s presentation of consciousness alongside our contemporary understanding.

Political Obedience

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Political Order ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Development Of Resistance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Resistance Theory ◽  
The Way

The Reformation had a profound impact on European thinking about political obedience. This chapter explores the way in which the Reformation “mood” embraced theories of absolute authority, but also led to a questioning of authority. It explores the development of resistance theory and ideas of popular sovereignty, and of toleration, all of which cast significant limits on the authority of secular rulers. Reformation impulses also inspired some to genuinely revolutionary attempts to transform the social and political order, and these revolutionary ideas are explored too. The approach taken is to avoid narrative, and to explore particular moments at which the implication of Reformation ideas becomes apparent.

scholarly journals Novel Mega Best-Seller Karya Luluk HF Mariposa dalam Kajian Resepsi Sastra

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Tania Intan ◽  
Muhamad Adji
Keyword(s):  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Data Source ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Horizon Of Expectations ◽  
The Way

This study discusses the reception of readers of the mega best-seller novel entitled Mariposa by Luluk HF. The purpose of this study is to (1) describe the reader's responses, (2) describe the horizon of readers' expectations, and (3) describe the factors that cause differences in responses and the horizon of expectations of readers of Mariposa's novel. The method applied is descriptive qualitative. This study uses a reception aesthetic approach that seeks to find consistent reception patterns as a reflection of the way the reader responds to the text. The research data consisted of texts containing the responses of twenty respondents from the data source in the form of the Goodreads reader site. The research results obtained are as follows. First, not all readers respond positively to the intrinsic elements of the novel, especially the characterization of the female protagonist who is considered to show aggressive behavior with a love motive. Second, most of the horizons of readers' expectations do not match the reality in Mariposa. Readings are generally motivated by curiosity because of the hyperbolic labeling of the novel, recommendations from friends, and the discourse of filming the novel. Third, the factors that cause the difference or suitability of the horizon of readers' expectations for the Mariposa novel are knowledge of literature, knowledge of life, and experience of reading literary works.

FALLING DOWN IN ORDER TO GROW UP: TWO WOMEN’S JOURNEYS FROM UN-DOMESTICATION TO DOMESTICATION IN FANTASY FICTION

Mousaion ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-91
Author(s):  
Deirdre Byrne ◽  
Mary-Anne Potter
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Specific Process ◽  
Fantasy Fiction ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Alice In Wonderland ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Poststructuralist Theory ◽  
Looking Glass

AbstractIn this article, following the convention adopted in The annotated Alice (Gardner 2000), the authors refer to the combined volume of Lewis Carroll’s works – entitled Alice in Wonderland – which includes Alice’s adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass – as ‘the Alice texts’. In the Alice texts, Alice is presented as a Victorian female protagonist who has to ‘fall down’ in order to ‘grow up’. This is also true of Yvaine in Neil Gaiman’s Victorian-based novel, Stardust (1999). Both protagonists experience ‘falling down’, which also carries the symbolic weight of being an act of submission – falling into a subordinate state. In looking at the significance of the opposing movements up and down as indicative of a specific process of female domestication, postmodern and poststructuralist theory explains how this binary opposition fulfils a specific didactic function in Victorian and Victorian-based fairy tale narratives. Historical approaches to Victorian society also demonstrate the submissive role assigned to women in Victorian society. While ‘un-domestication’ is rejected in favour of domestic submission in Carroll’s and Gaiman’s narratives, ‘un-domestication’ results in the liberation of their central female protagonists in the filmic revisionings, Alice in Wonderland (2010), directed by Tim Burton, and Stardust (2007), directed by Matthew Vaughn.

Fourth Study

2019 ◽  
pp. 88-114
Author(s):  
Nikhil Govind
Keyword(s):  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Rural Childhood

The fourth chapter stays within this older tradition. Saratchandra Chatterjee’s Srikanta is to many the canonical Indian novel—it too is a bildung, following the protagonist from a wayward rural childhood into adulthood via many quests for livelihood and love. The protagonist Srikanta is far removed from a typical bourgeois clerical life. His life is often made via several fascinating female protagonists who educate him into the joys of non-conformity and courage. The chapter also includes a discussion of Rabindranath Tagore’s Garden—though less appreciated, the Garden is a fine meditation on illness and love. Unlike the infinitely mobile characters in Srikanta (male and female), here the ill female protagonist watches the world unfold in front of her (including her husband’s interest in another woman) even as she lies pinned to a bed.

REDESIGNING FEMININITY: MISS MARJORIBANKS'S DRAWING-ROOM OF OPPORTUNITY

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Kaston Tange
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
Gendered Identity ◽  
Feminine Identity ◽  
Ideological Space ◽  
Drawing Room ◽  
Miss Marjoribanks ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
The Way

Margaret Oliphant's work has of late received renewed attention for her portrayal of heroines who struggle against the confines of proper middle-class femininity – who are at once sympathetic and yet do not fit the model of the submissive Victorian domestic angel – and Miss Marjoribanks (1866) is no exception. Without fully discounting the Victorian notion that there is a proper place women ought to occupy, Miss Marjoribanks raises complex questions about how that place is defined and limited. Recent scholarly attention to the novel highlights Oliphant's sustained engagement with the issue of how far propriety and custom circumscribe a woman's place. Such examinations, however, fail to address the extent to which Oliphant demonstrates the flexibility of cultural notions of a woman's place by focusing the action of Miss Marjoribanks almost entirely on the heroine's creation of a very specific physical place for herself – her drawing-room. Examining Miss Marjoribanks's portrayal of how a Victorian woman might capitalize on the centrality of the drawing-room in shaping cultural notions of feminine identity, this essay argues that once Lucilla Marjoribanks has established the drawing-room as a physical and ideological space that will contain her actions, she uses this space and all it represents to expand the boundaries of her cultural place. By focusing specifically on the work its heroine undertakes within her drawing-room and by asserting that a woman's power lies in the possibility for feminine taste to accomplish action, Oliphant's novel, like her heroine, operates within the “prejudices of society” while simultaneously offering a means to exploit those prejudices. This architecturally-motivated re-reading of Oliphant's novel in turn suggests a re-reading of Oliphant's own career. For I would argue that novels operated for Oliphant the way that drawing-rooms do for Lucilla: they provided a culturally-sanctioned place in which to locate herself, and thereby reaffirm her respectable feminine position, even while she undertook projects that challenged Victorian assumptions about gendered identity.

Exile and the Other in Two Short Stories by Elena Garro

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-229
Author(s):  
Teresa M. Hurley
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Other ◽  
Elena Garro ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
The Status ◽  
First Time ◽  
Alternative Discourses ◽  
Lost Child ◽  
The Way

This article explores how in two short stories, ‘‘La primera vez que me vi’’ (The First Time I Saw Myself) and ‘‘El niñño perdido’’ (The Lost Child), Elena Garro draws on several discourses, contrasting the official one of the status quo (in post-revolutionary Mexico) with the alternative discourses of those who find themselves on the margins of society or in exile and hence in the position of ‘‘Other’’. The article also focuses on the way the marginalization of the female protagonists of the stories in some ways reflects that experienced by the author at a certain point in her life. Este artíículo explora cóómo en los dos cuentos, ‘‘La primera vez que me vi’’ y ‘‘El niñño perdido’’, Elena Garro utiliza varios discursos para contrastar la voz oficial del statu quo (del Mééxico pos-revolucionario) con los discursos alternativos de los que se encuentran en los máárgenes de la sociedad o en el exilio y, por ende, en la situacióón de ‘‘Otro’’. El artíículo tambiéén se centra en la forma en que la marginacióón de las protagonistas de los cuentos refleja, en ciertos aspectos, la de de la misma autora en algúún momento de su vida.

Teen girls and sexual agency: exploring the intrapersonal and intergroup dimensions of sexting

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio García-Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Sexual Agency ◽  
Gendered Identity ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Policy Attention ◽  
The Way

The electronic swapping of sexually provocative images and texts, commonly known as sexting, seems to have become part and parcel of adolescents’ social lives. In spite of both media and policy attention, questions remain about the way(s) young women navigate sexual relationships and construct their gendered identity discursively by endorsing/challenging social and behavioural norms of sexual agency. Guided discussions involving 36 young women were conducted. The main of aim of this study was to gain insight into the characteristics of sexualised adolescent cyberculture by analysing their discourses about sexting, the effects on their lives and its implications. In this article, I argue that the discourse analysis of these young women’s own construction of their sexualised gender identity may throw light on the interrelationships between dominant purportedly sexualised culture and agency.

Gender on the ropes: An autoethnographic account of boxing in Tasmania, Australia

2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 734-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Nash
Keyword(s):  
Gendered Identity ◽  
Amateur Boxing ◽  
The Way

This paper documents how I fought for a place as a boxer in a regional Tasmanian boxing gym over a 30 month period. This work builds on existing ethnographic accounts that argue that, for women, becoming a boxer is more than just a matter of developing a fit body and physical skill – it is a continual project of negotiating gendered identity. Using an analytic autoethnographic methodology and drawing on contemporary theories of masculinity, I share my individual experiences as a boxer and, in turn, reveal the complexities of bodywork and gendered identity within Tasmanian amateur boxing culture. My closing discussion analyses the way in which performances of masculinity were precarious, fragmented and anxious.

scholarly journals The curated representation of Saga Norén: Interweaving narratives of fashion and interiors

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-124
Author(s):  
Pamela Flanagan
Keyword(s):  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Nordic Noir dramas have dominated the landscape of contemporary television, transforming the crime genre beyond the traditional English-speaking productions whilst forging a path for female protagonists to dominate. This article seeks to analyse the relationship between the narrative, fashion and interiors through the main female protagonist Saga Noren (Sofia Helin) in Bron/Broen (The Bridge) (2011‐18), the Danish-Swedish production of the Nordic Noir drama.

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