Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations

Queer Maghrebi French ◽

10.5949/liverpool/9781781383001.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Denis M. Provencher

Keyword(s):

Queer Theory ◽

Women's Studies ◽

French Language ◽

Francophone Studies ◽

Migration Studies ◽

Women’S Studies ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Lgbt Studies ◽

And Migration ◽

French And Francophone

The introduction situates this project within the broader scholarship in French and Francophone Studies, post-colonial, diaspora and migration studies, gender and women’s studies, LGBT studies and queer theory, and language and sexuality. I divide the Introduction into three parts wherein each one addresses a different driving thread -- language, temporalities and filiations -- of the overarching argument of the book.

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Space and Identity of Women in Indian English Writings

SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH ◽

10.24113/ijellh.v7i11.10134 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (11) ◽

pp. 16

Author(s):

Dr. Abha Singh

Keyword(s):

Women's Studies ◽

English Literature ◽

Bharati Mukherjee ◽

Anita Desai ◽

True Self ◽

Indian English ◽

Women’S Studies ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Traditional Image

The women’s studies have been receiving increasing academic and disciplinary recognition throughout the globe. The writers are determined to narrate, respond and react to the place of women in society. The purpose of the present paper is to redefine the image of women in post colonial Indian English literature. The post colonial Indian English writers focus on major issues relating to woman such as her awakening to the realization of her individuality, her breaking away with the traditional image. The transformation of the idealized women into an assertive self willed woman, searching and discovering her true self is described by various Indian Writers like Anita Desai, Sashi Deshpande, Nayantara Sahgal, Bharati Mukherjee, Kamla Markandaya, Manju Kapoor and many others have depicted females who are not silent sufferers but have learnt to fight against injustice and humiliation.

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The Queerness in Shikhandi: Concerning Devdutt Pattanaik’s Shikhandi and Other Queer Tales They Don’t Tell You

SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH ◽

10.24113/ijellh.v9i1.10889 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 166-171

Author(s):

Ambili M

Keyword(s):

Critical Theory ◽

Queer Theory ◽

Women's Studies ◽

Queer Studies ◽

The Other ◽

Controversial Subject ◽

Women’S Studies ◽

Important Character

Queer theory is a realm of critical theory that developed within/in the early 1990s, out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies. Shikhandi is an important character in the Mahabharata. Hindu tales have many references to queerness; one among them is the story of Shikhandi, a woman who became a man. The gender of Shikhandi is a controversial subject, in epics especially in Mahabharata, men are considered as great warriors, full of masculinity and resilience. But while approaching the text from a postmodernist perspective, we can analyze the gender of Shikhandi as the ‘other gender’, Mahabharata, which means great India have much popularity in India, as Homer’s poems over the Greeks. This paper seeks to examine, how the character of Shikhandi in Mahabharata,who is neglected in the society, the queerness in Shikhandi which is flexible and fluid made him/her a remarkable character in the great epic.

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