“Indeed, the King has a Cunt! What a Wonder!”: Sex, Eroticism and Language in One Thousand and One Nights

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Abu Shahid Abdullah ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Sexual Promiscuity

One Thousand and One Nights, which can be traced back to as early as the 9th century, is probably the greatest introduction to Arabic culture through literature. This colossal and diverse book has drawn the attention of scholars, researchers and students to classic Arabic literature as well as influenced many prominent authors and filmmakers. It is not just a book of careless and unconnected stories but rather a piece of esteemed literature which has been read and analysed in many countries all over the world. However, it is also true that this book has been criticised for its sexual promiscuity and degraded portrayal of women. The aim of the presentation is to prove that underneath the clumsy and seemingly funny structures of One Thousand and One Nights, there is a description of overflowing sexuality. Through the sexualised or erotic description of female bodies, the book gives agency to women but at the same time depicts them derogatively, and thus fulfils the naked desire of the then patriarchal society. The presentation will highlight how sexual promiscuity or fathomless female sexual craving is portrayed through figurative and grammatical language, which objectifies the female characters but at the same time enables them to be playful with the male characters, and thus motivates them to become more powerful than the males. Finally. the presentation will focus on language or narrative as an act of survival from the perspectives of the female characters, which is most evident in the case of Scheherazade who saved not only her life but also lives of countless maidens by her mesmerizing storytelling talent.

scholarly journals Obraz kobiety w twórczości Anandy Devi

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Szkonter-Bochniak
Keyword(s):  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Postcolonial Feminism ◽  
Modern Writer ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Western European ◽  
Place And Identity ◽  
Status Of Women

Ananda Devi, an accomplished modern writer from Mauritius, creates texts that are difficult to classify according to their style and genre. The author is reluctant to accept the treatment of her writings as feminist, particularly Western European feminist, they are surely closer to postcolonial feminism and eco-feminism. Nevertheless, the status of women, their rights and tolerance for otherness are the key elements of Devi’s artistic expression. Her characters rebel against the patriarchal society, they endeavour to discover their own place and identity, which frequently means regaining control over their bodies in the first stage of the transformation. Devi’s female characters live close to nature, where they find comfort, some of them go through a regress to the world of animals and plants.

scholarly journals Patriarchal Oppression and Women Empowerment in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Tifanny Astrick
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
African Women ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Made In

This study examines how Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus interrogates the oppressions of women in the Nigerian patriarchal society and how women empower each other lead them to women empowerment. The study shows how the oppressions of women is represented through female characters which perpetually put women in disadvantaged positions as portrayed in Purple Hibiscus. One of the most despicable oppression among the so well-known cultural practices in Nigeria is the patriarchal oppression. However, as the events unfold, efforts will be made in order to reveal of how African women are rated based on the good and real women as represented by Beatrice and Ifeoma. I argue that Adichie's approach to subvert patriarchal oppression describes that despite the struggle and pain, women assert themselves in the world of patriarchy through education and sisterhood. Adichie’s novel suggests women empowerment through social transformation confronted by women. The title of the novel, "Purple Hibiscus" may refer to a particular type of flower, but it also emphasizes the triumph of the innovative suggesting that the unusual is not necessarily bad as it looks which aims to women empowerment.

scholarly journals Life According to Popular Children's Films

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Sara Hare ◽  
Mariah Benham
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationship ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Children's Media ◽  
American Theater ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Children's Films

This content analysis uses data gathered from the 150 top-grossing children’s animated films from 1990 to 2020 (based on North American theater sales) to examine the gender disparities and stereotypes in children’s media. The study shows that female characters are underrepresented in lead roles (14%), main gangs (28.1%), and speaking roles (27.2%). The central female characters are portrayed stereotypically. When female characters appear, they are more likely to be portrayed in a romantic and family relationship than male characters. However, films with a greater percentage of women writers are correlated with more speaking roles for female characters. The impact of media on children’s development is indisputable due to the way technology has become ingrained in day-to-day life. The lack of representation of female characters reinforces the stereotypical portrayals that negatively affect the self-esteem of girls and train boys to expect an androcentric world. The skewed and stereotypical portrayal of female characters fails to accurately represent the diversity of other parts of the world. While many of these films are produced in the West, they are widely distributed and consumed all over the world.

Evolution of men and women images in the character system in science fiction works of the Strugatsky brothers

Neophilology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 557-565
Author(s):  
Ilya V. Kozlov
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Character System ◽  
The World ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Traditional Roles ◽  
Over Time

The science fiction works of the Strugatsky brothers are considered as a common artistic world undergoing a certain evolution over time. One indicator of this change is the correlation of male and female characters in character systems of works. A similar change is traced (starting from the early works – “The Way to Amalthea”, “From Beyond” – to the later ones – “Beetle in the Anthill”, “Snail on the Slope”). At first, it can be seen in the quantitative transformation (the appearance of female images in character systems), and then in the influence they have on the plot, narration (including the “author's”digressions), in general – on the image of the world in the works of the Strugatsky. At the same time, an attempt is made to distract from the correlation of the Strugatskys’ work with political and feminist theories, the conclusions are formulated on the basis of an analytical consideration of the artistic form of literary works themselves. Heroines appear in their traditional roles. But then they from “helpers” become opponents in the character system, acquiring traits hostile to male characters. Such a change, in turn, affects the plots of the works, transforming the adventurous plot (now not just a plot-study, but conquest and transformation) and deepening the internal conflict of the Strugatsky brothers’ artistic world.

scholarly journals THE POWER OF BU TEJO AND DIAN? THE ANALYSIS OF FEMINIST POWER RELATION IN THE FILM TILIK

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-159
Author(s):  
Sonny Angjaya
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Society

Tilik is a short film directed by Wahyu Agung Prasetyo. Given that the film's plot is primarily focused on the relationships of its female characters, the problem of female representation cannot be ignored. This article focuses on the power dynamic between the film's two central female characters, Bu Tejo and Dian, through the lens of Amy Allen's feminist perspective on power. The analysis identifies four dimensions of representation that contribute significantly to the development of their power relationship: physical appearance, marital status, gender role depiction, and socioeconomic status. The underlying significance of the power relationship between Bu Tejo and Dian in the film is analyzed through qualitative Content Analysis and Contextual Analysis approaches. This study reveals that the film portrays both women ambiguously, how patriarchal society creates an ecosystem that pits women against one another for power, and how the minor male characters in the film continue to exert signifficant influence over Bu Tejo and Dian in acquiring, maintaining, and exercising their power in a patriarchal society.

scholarly journals The Female Characters in Oe Kenzaburo’s Early Literary Works - Focusing on our Age and Sexual Beings

MANUSYA ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-66
Author(s):  
Duantem Krisdathanont
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Early Years ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Society

Oe Kenzaburo, the 1994 Nobel Prize winner, is one of the most talented authors of the contemporary literary world. However, he has been criticized for lacking an interest in portraying female characters clearly especially in his early years of writing. Considering himself to be a member of the postwar generation, Oe wrote Our Age and Sexual Beings in 1959 and 1963 to illustrate two types of human beings in his generation, the political being (seiji teki ningen) and the sexual being (sei teiki ningen). While the political being is an active hero who opposes others, refusing to conform to any existence in opposition to him, the sexual being neither confronts nor competes with others and yields without any protest. Also in order to expose the despair and alienation of these post-Ampo Japanese youths, Oe creates male characters to portray this theme, while female characters play only supporting roles. In addition, though the female characters in these two novels are developed from those in earlier works, they are still flat characters and not sufficiently developed in the story compared with the male characters. They are still created as the 'other' in the society. In this essay, I will examine in detail how female characters in Oe's Our Age and Sexual Beings are created as human beings who are inferior in the patriarchal society.

scholarly journals WOMEN’S LANGUAGE OF MEXICAN FEMALE CHARACTERS DEPICTED IN TELENOVELAS: AN AMERICAN STUDIES

JURNAL BASIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 343
Author(s):  
Andri Fernanda ◽  
Nurvita Wijayanti ◽  
M Afifulloh
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Mexican American Women ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
The World

  The issue about gender equality seemed in its glory in all over the world. Women might enjoy the equality and even they had a chance to promote themselves to become the future woman leaders. Not even Mexican-American women who got the impacts of the movement of gender equality. However their telenovela show told the opposite. This study aimed to examine the female characters of telenovela through the language choices. This research wanted to prove that by having telenovela as the soap opera, Mexico had their female characters to be the subaltern which showed the inferiority toward male characters. The objects of the research were two newest telenovelas aired during 2015-2019: Vis a Vis (Locked Up) and Tiempos De Guerra (Morocco: Loves in Times of War). Descriptive qualitative method was used to comprehensively analyze the language choices by female characters in those three telenovelas. The study showed that although Mexican telenovela had improved their female characters to be the stronger ones, their language choices still depicted their inferiority toward male characters.

scholarly journals Галерея мужских образов в рассказе А.К. Гольдебаева Галчонок

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ксения Морозова
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Fallen Women ◽  
The World ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Established Order

The motif of the Apocalypse passes through all the works of the Samara writer A.K. Goldebaev (Semenov). But if in his early works he did not highlight the end of the world (It seems distant and therefore not so scary to the author), years later he realizes the seriousness of what is happening – death isapproaching. In the story The Young Jackdaw (In the Established Order), published in 1910 in the short story collection Knowledge, the writer starts a conversation about the fallen women. However, this topic is not the leading one, and the female characters are not central ones. In this article, the author attempts to reveal the true meaning of the work through the analysis of the system of male characters.

scholarly journals Female-centered fan fiction as homoaffection in fan communities

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ria Narai
Keyword(s):  
Star Trek ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Fan Communities ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

In the scholarship of fan studies, a lot has been said about why female fan communities enjoy writing about male characters and relationships in fan fiction. In contrast, there has been a dearth of research into female fan communities that are centered around female characters and their relationships with each other. Here I examine the heretofore unnamed female-centered fan fiction genre of homoaffection fic through a close reading of examples chosen from the Star Trek fandom. I show how this fan fictional genre reworks the masculine narratives of the television series and movies in order to define female experience and demonstrate the way in which this in turn creates female communities in both the world of the fic and our own world.

scholarly journals An Analytical Study of Women Objectification in “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (II) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
Martha Nussbaum ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Objectification Of Women ◽  
The Impact

The objectification of women is a communal problem in every developed and underdeveloped society of the world. Women make a major population of the world and serve society in multidimensional modes, but still, they are considered feeble to men. The subject of women objectification has remained the focus of various researchers globally. This research focused on three short stories drawn from “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” of Daniyal Mueenuddin to bring forward disparities and inequalities prevailing in the patriarchal society of Pakistan. Additionally, it investigated the impact of these inequalities and injustices on the downtrodden women of Pakistan. The objectification of women is such discrimination that women are subjected to undergo in a patriarchal social setup. This study analyzes the objectification of women through the lenses of female characters selected from three short stories. This study uses the theoretical frameworks of Martha Nussbaum and Rae Langton’s to draw outcomes for this study. Study findings exhibit that female characters undergo objectification and are treated as things by males in the male-dominated strata of Pakistan. Keywords: Women objectification, gender, patriarchy, oppression, feminism

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