scholarly journals Loss of Innocence and Onset of Maturation: A Feminist Study of Alice Walker's The Flowers

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 178-185
Author(s):  
Noveen Javed ◽  
Ezzah Shakil ◽  
Sohail Ahmad Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Feminist Study ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Outer Environment

This study plans to tour the different stages of the loss of innocence in the character of MYOP, a feeling conjured by Alice Walker in her short story "The Flowers". This paper encompasses the qualitative research approach and insights taken from the basic postulates of "traditional gender roles" situated within the theoretical framework of Feminists Criticism by Lois Tyson. Significant findings of the study are that a patriarchal society ceases the mental and emotional growth of a girl. When that girl is exposed to the outer environment, it leads to the onset of her maturity. It is hoped that my work will contribute to the expansion of episteme regarding the drastic influences of chauvinism and maximizing female society's potential.

scholarly journals Exhibition of Traditional Gender Roles through Symbolic and Semiotic use of Language in Alice Munro’s ‘Royal Beatings’

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Malik ◽  
Zaneb Shoukat
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Teenage Girl ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
The Real ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Semiotic Perspective ◽  
High Degree

his paper presents the feminist analysis of short story ‘Royal Beatings’. It involves the beating of a teenage girl by her father who became the victim of domestic violence on her misconduct with her stepmother. The theoretical framework used for analysis is ‘Feminism’ and character’s actions are analyzed from the two feministic lenses that are ‘Traditional Gender Roles’ and Julia kristeva’s symbolic and semiotic perspective of language. The paper concludes that deep rooted patriarchal structures where men are deemed authoritative, have control on their female members and a high degree influence in their lives are considered the real causes of female oppression.

scholarly journals Prejudice Nation: Hypersexualization and Abuse in Jude Dibia’s Unbridled

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110326
Author(s):  
Chinenye Amonyeze ◽  
Stella Okoye-Ugwu
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Implicit Bias ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Culture Of Silence

With the global #Metoo movement yet to arrive in Nigeria, Jude Dibia’s Unbridled reflects an emblematic moment for the underrepresented to occupy their stories and make their voices heard. The study analyzes patriarchy’s complicated relationship with the Nigerian girl child, significantly reviewing the inherent prejudices in patriarchy’s power hierarchies and how radical narratives explore taboo topics like incest and sexual violence. Contextualizing the concepts of hypersexualization and implicit bias to put in perspective how women, expected to be the gatekeepers of sex, are forced to navigate competing allegiances while remaining submissive and voiceless, the article probes the struggles of sexual victims and how hierarchies in a patriarchal society exacerbate their affliction through a culture of silence. Arguing that Dibia’s Unbridled confronts the narrative of silence in Nigerian fiction, the article explores ways the author empowers gender by challenging social values and traditional gender roles, underscoring gender dynamics and the problematic nature of prevalent bias against the feminine gender in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Hegemoni Ideologi dalam Cerpen “Surga untuk Lelaki yang Tertipu” Karya Adam Yudhistira (Kajian Hegemoni Gramsci)

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Fajrul Falah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The background of this research is there is an indication that the short story was created not just accentuate the beauty aspects of language and narration. However, the language in the meaningful short stories and the author's ideological message through imaginary characters constructed. The purpose of this study is to reveal hegemony and ideology that contains short stories “Surga untuk Lelaki yang Tertipu” by Adam Yudhistira. The research approach used in the realm of sociology of literature, with the study of Gramsci hegemony. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. Research data in the form of language; words, phrases, sentences in the short story related ones are described and interpreted with the Gramsci hegemony approach. The results of the study show the relationship between the teacher's figure and Santo like a patron-client. The teacher has a higher status (superior) and the power to rule Santo (inferior). The ideological hegemony was carried out by the teacher's figure towards Santo went well. Because it has and is bound by the same beliefs. The orientation of the two figures is the same, namely heaven. The ideology instilled by the teacher has a significant influence on the Santo, so he wants to take action that sacrifices the lives of others and himself. The act which was originally believed to be true by Santo, but regretted in the end.

scholarly journals Reversed Myth and Negative Symbols of Narcissus in Mother-Son Relationship in Hayashi Fumiko’s Narcissus

IZUMI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 350-361
Author(s):  
Ratna Asmarani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Untimely Death ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Story Writer ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Hayashi Fumiko ◽  
Psychological Concepts

The famous myth of Narcissus is about a mythical handsome young man who indifferently rejects the love of the nymph Echo leading to Echo’s broken heart and untimely death and his being cursed to excessively adore his own handsome reflection on the pond till his death. The short story entitled Narcissus written by Hayashi Fumiko is intriguing because its title calls to mind the famous myth of Narcissus. However, this short story portrays the myth of Narcissus from a unique perspective. Thus, the aims of this paper are to analyse the reversed myth and negative symbols of Narcissus as reflected in the mother-son relationship in the short story. To support the analysis various psychological understandings of the myth of Narcissus are used as well as various understandings of the symbols of the flowers called Narcissus. The methods of research used are a comprehensive combination of textual-contextual methods as well as library research and qualitative research. The textual method focuses on the intrinsic aspects relevant to the focus of analysis, such as character, conflict, and setting, while the contextual method borrows the psychological concepts of the term Narcissus and the symbolic meaning of the flowers named Narcissus. The result shows that the mother-son relationship clearly portrays the reversed myth in the matter of the gender roles, the type of relationship, and the ending of the relationship. Another result shows that all the symbols related to the flowers of Narcissus turn into negative meanings in the sort of story entitled Narcissus by Hayashi Fumiko. In short, the short story writer turns upside down both the myth and the symbols resulting in an engaging story full of hidden meanings to be interpreted

scholarly journals Theme of Isolation and Child versus Adult Feelings: Stylistic Analysis of Alice Munro’s Short Story “The Eye”

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-494
Author(s):  
Fozia Chandio ◽  
Zia Ahmed ◽  
Akbar Sajid
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

Analysis of the stylistics features of any author has been very interesting technique to explore themes depicted by him/her. This paper examines a short story of Alice Munro titled ‘The Eye’, from stylistic perspective. ‘The Eye’ is the opening tale of the set of four stories, in a style of memoir that is titled as ‘Finale’. This set of four stories appears in her collection of short stories titled “Dear Life” (2012. ) The paper presents the stylistics analysis of the story keeping the stylistic approach in focus suggested by Leech and Short in Style in Style in Fiction (2007). The story is analyzed stylistically in terms of character and characterization, point of view and speech, thought and writing presentation. Stylistic study of any text effectively provides comprehension of the base of the text particularly and its evaluation generally (Peer 2008). In order to carry this out, the method of textual analysis of Qualitative research approach is conducted. The end of the analysis is to have a turnout of a deeper comprehension of the relationship between style and literary aesthetics in ‘The Eye’ by studying the stylistic patterns behind Munro’s narrative, in order to find out her creative approach. Paul Simpson maintains, “Stylistics serves to inquire into the language of the text and on a broader level to investigate creativity in the use of language (2004:3). The endeavor made in the paper explores that Munro has an ambivalent and complicated technique of presentation, both structurally and thematically. Here, the argument is that the stylistic analysis of the story reveals that Munro has high artistic approach towards the short story; she narrates the fiction with such an ambiguous approach that it welcomes more than one interpretations of the story.

You’ve Got to Sell It!

2018 ◽  
pp. 40-64
Author(s):  
Karen Schupp
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Experience Economy ◽  
Adolescent Dancers

This chapter explores the interplay between what is sold, bought, and invested in at dance competition events. Dance competitions, which focus on contemporary, jazz, tap, hip-hop, and ballet, and attract thousands of competitors, most of whom are adolescent girls, operate on a “pay to dance” system. Using a qualitative research approach and a theoretical framework rooted in literature on the construction of bodily ideals, the dancer’s contributions to contemporary dance practices, the formation of dancing communities, and dance learning in relation to ideas of conspicuous consumption and the experience economy, the chapter demonstrates that dance competitions offer adolescent dancers a meaningful venue through which to perform, build community, and nurture transferable proficiencies. Although not explicitly “for sale,” these qualities provide an understanding of why competitors “pay to dance.”

P051 USING A HUMAN-CENTERED QUALITATIVE RESEARCH APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING IBD EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS DELIVERED THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 158 (3) ◽  
pp. S108-S109
Author(s):  
Carine Khalil ◽  
Welmoed van Deen ◽  
Taylor Dupuy ◽  
Nirupama Bonthala ◽  
Christopher Almario ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Educational Videos

Profaning Jewish Mores in Chochana Boukhobza's Un été à Jérusalem

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-91
Author(s):  
Nancy M. Arenberg
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
The City ◽  
Traditional Roles

As a transnational Israeli writer, Chochana Boukhobza delves into the complex problem of crossing borders in Un été à Jérusalem (1986), a text which focuses on the unnamed protagonist's trip from Paris to visit her family during the summer months in Jerusalem. Although the narrator had resided in Israel previously, she is forced to grapple with her ‘Otherness’ in Jerusalem, especially as a Jew originally from Tunisia. The narrator's crisis of exile is defined by her sense of disconnection to her family, the city, Israeli politics, and women's traditional roles. In this essay, particular emphasis will be placed on the protagonist's penchant for profaning Jewish cultural and religious practices, which is articulated through a series of corporeal transgressions. To launch this revolt against the patriarchal structure of the nation in Israel, the narrator rejects the submissive role assigned to Jewish-Tunisian women, and, in so doing, dismantles traditional gender roles.

Management of Records in Adapted Buildings as Records Centres in Zimbabwe

Mousaion ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samson Mutsagondo ◽  
Getrude Maduyu ◽  
Godfrey Tsvuura
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Personal Observation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Professional Management ◽  
The Government

This paper discusses the challenges of records management that arise from the use of adapted buildings as records centres in Zimbabwe, despite the advantages of using such buildings. A qualitative research approach was used as well as a case study research design. Data were collected from seven officers of the Gweru Records Centre through semi-structured interviews. Personal observation was used to triangulate findings from interviews. It was found that the use of adapted buildings as records centres was a cheaper and quicker way of establishing records centres throughout the country. However, a number of preservation, security and management challenges cropped up as the conditions of the buildings and the environment of the adapted buildings were not conducive to the proper and professional management of records. This study is important in that it explores the prospects and challenges of using adapted buildings as records centres in Zimbabwe, an area that has not been researched by many authors. This provokes archival authorities and the government to seriously consider establishing purpose-built records and archival centres.

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