scholarly journals Violencia de género en Temporada de huracanes, de Fernanda Melchor: de la violencia subjetiva a la violencia sistémica.

Sincronía ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol XXV (79) ◽  
pp. 261-281
Author(s):  
Marco Antonio Islas Arévalo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Female Gender ◽  
Male Gender ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Critical Comparison ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Systemic Violence ◽  
Forms Of Violence

This essay approaches gender violence from a systemic violence study in Fernanda Melchor’s novel Temporada de huracanes (2017). It analyses the violence exerted towards three female characters form their point of view. The purpose is to identify the elements of Systematic violence that allow physical, psychological, and sexual abuse in the three main stories that represent gender violence within the novel. The method employed was a critical comparison between the different types of violence and its’ perpetrator’s’ motivations, framed in the systemic violence approach. Finally, it was concluded that these forms of violence are allowed within the setting of a patriarchal-colonial structure that reproduces dominance from the male gender towards the female gender. Which, ultimately, allows a normalized reproduction of violence towards women in various degrees: from psychologicalverbal aggressions, to systematic rape and femicide.

scholarly journals The Dramaturgy of Female Gender  in Early Modern English Theatre:  An Investigation of the Theatrical Expression of Gender in Selected Jacobean Plays, Their Restoration/Early Eighteenth-Century Adaptations, and Their Original and Contemporary Staging

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lori Beth Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Winter's Tale ◽  
Winter's Tale ◽  
Female Roles ◽  
Gender Boundaries

<p>The adaptations of Shakespeare‘s plays that were written and staged during the English Restoration and eighteenth century form an important part of the performance history of Shakespeare; yet they have never been employed in research on the female characters in the original plays. This thesis analyzes four late Shakespeare plays and their adaptations: The Two Noble Kinsmen (with Fletcher) and Davenant's The Rivals; The Tempest and Davenant and Dryden's The Enchanted Island; The Winter's Tale and Garrick's Florizel and Perdita; and the lost Cardenio (also with Fletcher) and Theobald's Double Falsehood. Investigating the dramaturgy of the female characters from a theatrical point-of-view that includes both a close-reading and imagining of the text with a "directorial eye" and practical staging work, this study examines not only language but the construction and representation of character through emotional and physical states of being, gestures and movement, sound (music and the sound of speech), props, costumes, spectacle, stage directions, use of space and architecture, and the audience. The adaptations have been used as a lens to encounter afresh the female characters in the original plays. Through this approach, I have discovered evidence to challenge some traditional interpretations of Shakespeare's female characters and have also offered new readings of the characters. In addition, I have demonstrated the danger of accepting the widely held critical view that the introduction of actresses on the Restoration stage prompted adaptors to sexualize the female roles in a demeaning, trivial, and meretricious manner. In fact, female roles in the Restoration had some power to subvert gender boundaries just as they did in the Renaissance when played by boy actors. This work explores the treatment of themes and motifs that recur around the staging of women in the early modern period such as madness, cross-gender disguise and cross-gender casting, rape and sexual violence, and the use of silence by female characters. Each chapter draws individual conclusions about the female characters in the plays, often drawing parallels between two central women in particular play. Overall, the thesis demonstrates the complexity and multiplicity of the ways the women in Shakespeare's plays express their agency and desire.</p>

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.

scholarly journals Violence Against Women in Sanaa Shalan’s Falling in the Sun

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Saif AL Deen Lutfi Ali AL Ghammaz ◽  
Ruzy Suliza Hashim ◽  
Amrah Binti Abdulmajid
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Violence against women is a heinous act committed against a woman, a wife, a mother, a sister, or even a daughter deliberately or not deliberately causing her psychological, emotional, and physical harm. The rise of this unhealthy phenomenon mainly in less-developed countries such as Jordan necessitates more academic attention not only because of its detrimental effect on the Jordanian women&rsquo;s lives, but also because it is intentionally ignored and dismissed as taboo. With that, there has been a growing interest among Jordanian writers and sociologists in exploring the extent of this social ill through creative literary genres such as novels. This paper for one primarily examines the manifestations of violence against women in the Jordanian context through a textual analysis of Falling in the Sun by Sanaa Shalan, an author hailing from the contemporary Jordanian generation. Originally written in Arabic, this well-known novel gives prominence to the severe reality of the distress habitually suffered by many Jordanian women, notably the various forms of violence that they have to tolerate living in a multicultural male-controlled nation. With a feminist reading of Falling in the Sun (2014), we shall examine Shalan&rsquo;s representations of violence against women in the novel as a dire social illness resulting from mistaken social beliefs, absence of laws, and misunderstanding of religion and gender inequality in the Jordanian society. Additionally, the current paper&rsquo;s outline is constructed on three main forms of violence against women, i.e. physical, psychological and economic abuse as depicted in Falling in the Sun through the novel&rsquo;s female characters, primarily the main protagonists.

WORKING-CLASS MASCULINITIES IN MARY BARTON

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Surridge
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Elizabeth Gaskell ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Male Gender ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Original Title ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Male Gender Role

IN CONSIDERING THE SUBJECT of masculinity in Mary Barton (1848), it is perhaps well to remember that Elizabeth Gaskell conceived the novel as being about a man. “‘John Barton’ was the original title of the book,” she wrote to Mrs. W. R. Greg early in 1849. “Round the character of John Barton all the others formed themselves; he was my hero, the person with whom all my sympathies went . . .” (Letters 42: 74). Gaskell’s letter of 5 January 1849 to Miss Lamont reaffirms this: “‘John Barton’ was the original name, as being the central figure to my mind . . . in writing he was [?] my ‘hero’; and it was a London thought coming through the publisher that it must be called Mary B” (Letters 39: 70). While the “London” title of Mary Barton focuses on the romance elements of the plot (and, by extension, on the female gender role), Gaskell’s original title of John Barton focused on working-class protest (and, by extension, on the male gender role). Indeed, there is much to suggest that the novel is as much concerned with masculinity as it is with industrialization and class strife.

scholarly journals The Trauma of Female Gender with Special reference to Henry James Novel “The Portrait of a Lady”

NOTIONS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
Farhana Tabassum
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Male Gender ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human History ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Portrait Of A Lady

Females have been a silent feature for the majority of human history, their thoughts, and feelings are not considered being of the least importance. Henry James has embellished the social responsibilities of marriage vows very critical for women. James was a critic of middle class conjugal life and magnifies the trauma of middle class women. Philosophically the central theme of the topic explains the word Trauma which literally means the ferociousness of the male gender on the females in the form of suppression . Under the difficult circumstances, women were submissive but through her works, they fought the social forces and attempted to create their own identity. The novel ‘The Portrait of a lady’depicts a tradition from innocence of the Isabel Archer who claimed to be fond of her freedom surrounded with a number of challenging women. The portrait of a lady is not the end of Isabel story but story of women changing place in society because it was even forbidden for the women to break the norms of patriarchal conventions. Henry James choice is based on interest and revolutionary themes regarding women in The Portrait of a Lady which challenges the society and its rules of the Nineteenth century regarding women position, their behavior expectations and their challenges against the traumatic conditions of the society.

scholarly journals The Position of Women and Violence Against them in Works of Serbian Literature

Reflexia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Rakić
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Teaching Literature ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Negative Trait ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Everyday and public life, contents of newspaper headlines, films, internet contents, social networks and practically all segments of life abound in scenes and descriptions of violence. The paper presents the characters of women who are portrayed as persons subject to subordination and other forms of violence within the literary works represented in the teaching of Serbian language and literature. The structure of the paper shows the analysis of the characters of individual women from the point of view of gender equality and position in society, but also the contextualization of the work. Aspects of noticing domestic violence and subordination of women throughout history are given, in almost all epochs of Serbian literature. The role of teaching literature in the educational process is to point out to students the manifestation of different types of behavior and to prepare children to see reality in constant comparison with the theme of the work. In recent times, we are facing the problem of gender equality and the idea of gender equality is becoming more and more prominent. The aim of this paper is to point out the importance of the content of teaching units in creating student awareness that violence is an extremely negative trait and that every kind of such behavior should be suppressed. Through independent presentations of students based on the analysis of individual female characters, interdisciplinary competencies are developed: problem solving, communication skills, skills of cooperation and life in a democratic society.

scholarly journals Socialist Realism And The Situation Of Women In Society In The Works Of Maxim Gorky "Mother" (Социалистический Реализм И Положение Женщины В Обществе В Произведении Максима Горького "Мать")

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (44) ◽  
pp. 269-281
Author(s):  
Hadeel Ismaeel Khalil ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Maxim Gorky

Maxim Gorky’s Mother is one of the most important literary genre in social realism, in which he depicts female characters with revolutionary fervor and enthusiasm, projecting his social ideologies and dreams. Though the novel unique importance lies in the fact that it has been thoroughly analyzed by many writers, historians and sociologists, there are almost no studies devoted to the role of women out of a Marxist and feminist point of view. The present paper sheds light on the Russian woman‘s important role in overcoming all adversity and gain her position on Social Realism. Одно из центральных мест среди произведений, написанных в таком литературном жанре, как социалистический реализм, занимает произведение Максима Горького "Мать", в котором он изображал женские персонажи с революционным задором и энтузиазмом, проецируя через них свои социалистические мысли и мечты. Актуальность данной работы заключается в том, что произведение Горького "Мать" было анализировано многими литераторами, историками и социологами, однако почти отсутствуют исследования, посвящённые революционной роли женщин с марксистской и феминистской точки зрения. В заключении делается вывод о том, что Максим Горький в романе "Мать" дал чёткий портрет русской женщине в рамках социалистического реализма, которая смогла преодолеть все невзгоды, переродиться и стать полноправным членом общества.

scholarly journals Vocational training and sexual assault against women: challenges for graduation in nursing

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisca Alanny Rocha Aguiar ◽  
Raimunda Magalhães da Silva ◽  
Indara Cavalcante Bezerra ◽  
Luiza Jane Eyre de Souza Vieira ◽  
Ludmila Fontenele Cavalcanti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Professional Performance ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Learning Scenarios ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Teaching Learning

Abstract Objectives: To understand the meanings of sexual assault against women in the point of view of students, professors and university managers of undergraduate nursing; and to understand how the contents on this subject are approached in undergraduate courses in Nursing in Higher Education Institutions. Method: A qualitative study, with data collection from March to November 2018, through interviews with ten students, ten teachers and seven managers from two private institutions. Data was treated by the modality of thematic content, with a theoretical-analytical reference of 'gender violence' and 'rape culture'. Results: The topic is approached in a fragmented way in different academic contexts, which leads to the reflection of the topic in the training of nurses, extending to their professional performance. Conclusion and implications for practice: The possibilities of incorporating the subject in the teaching-learning scenarios and practices converge to approach the content about the different types of violence in the undergraduate subjects, with educational actions with the population, potentializing the deconstruction of the culture of female subordination. In addition, the study is aligned with the appropriate time in which the reorientation of the curricular guidelines for the health courses is discussed.

scholarly journals Postmodern Angst and Zen Buddhism in Ruth Ozeki‘s A Tale for the Time Being

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-72
Author(s):  
Mojca Kervel
Keyword(s):  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fractal Nature ◽  
The Status ◽  
American Author ◽  
Systemic Violence ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
Zen Buddhist

The article addresses issues concerning objective, or systemic, violence which legitimizes and conditions other forms of violence – psychological, economic, sexual, physical, etc. These issues are approached from the perspective of frustrations and traumas experienced by individuals as a consequence of the shift of the sociohistorical paradigm, which has so far been principally governed by the mechanisms and interests of global postindustrial capitalism. Through the analysis of the status of reality and subject in A Tale for the Time Being, a 2013 novel by Japanese-American author Ruth Ozeki, I first identify the violent and traumatic aspects of contemporary conditions as experienced by the protagonists in the novel. Then, Ozeki’s literary scenario for improving quotidian existence of individuals via internalization of Dogen’s Zen Buddhist principles is assessed from the perspective of the philosophical definitions of the categories of subject and reality in postmodernity, as well as in relation to the actual conditions in the global consumerist societies of the digital age. The article maintains that Ozeki’s solution of the protagonists’ existential crises is rather significant since the fundamental premises of Zen Buddhism correspond to the metaphysical structuring of postmodernity. The novel hence illuminates the productive facets of the fractal nature of postmodern individuals, as well as the role literature can play in their concretisation.

scholarly journals VERBALIZATION OF FEMALE ARTISTIC IMAGES IN “A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS” BY KHALED HOSSEINI: GENDER ASPECT

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(77)) ◽  
pp. 185-188
Author(s):  
Antonina Muntian ◽  
Iryna Shpak
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Feminine Discourse ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Artistic Images ◽  
The One

The purpose of this study is an attempt to examine women’s artistic images and their verbalization in Khaled Hosseini’s novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns”. In this study, the authors try to analyze the manifestations of the feminine discourse of the two main female characters in the novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” in sociocultural and linguostylistic aspects. In the recent years women’s studies are becoming more and more significant; female discourses are being analyzed form different scientific points of view. Considering the relevant scientific works of eminent scientists, the authors of this article conclude that artistic images play an extremely important role in the implementation of current topics and ideas of any literary work: artistic images have the ability to produce new ideas and communicate these ideas to readers who in their turn could interpret them according to the cultural background, which ensures the formation of the linguistic and cultural concepts. Khaled Hosseini’s female characters’ discourse in his novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is multilayered: on the one hand, it is actualization of the personal fight for basic human rights within family hierarchy (cultural aspect) and on the other hand, it is the fight for civil rights from the point of view of social context.

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