scholarly journals Dreadful Dolls: Female Power in Carol Ann Duffy

Author(s):  
Beatrice Nori

The article scrutinizes some female characters in four poems of the Scottish poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Starting from the issue of gender construction and feminist theories, the author then shifts the focus onto the deconstruction and then re-writing of identities. The “Dreadful Dolls” of the title are women struggling to regain control of their bodies, and lives. The author points out how these women change their own body nature and appearance to determine the effects on those who claim power over them. These heroines become aware of the power of their gaze, which they use as a weapon or as a shield. They even manipulate their attire in order to reveal or, contrarily, to hide something about themselves. In this work, the author presents women performing the re-writing of their identity and power.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Cut Ruby Miranda ◽  
Helmita Helmita

In writing this thesis, the writer discusses the depression of women because of patriarchal traditions, even though they already know about women's rights and freedoms. This patriarchal tradition is that men hold full power over anything and women must always obey the rules of men. The women are required not to do any activities, in terms of education and employment. Women are only allowed to do homework. This applies to all women, both single and married. This began in the 90s, especially in the United States. In writing the thesis, the writer uses psychological and feminist theories according to Sigmund Freud and Maggie Humm, who will explore the psychological side of women who are oppressed by the existence of this patriarchal custom. The purposes of this paper are: (1) To describe psychological-feminist cases in female characters (2) To analyze psychological-feminists in depressed female characters (3) To explain the psychological-feminist influence with female characters in the short story of The Yellow Wallpaper from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, A Rose For Emily from William Faulkner, The Story Of An Hour by Kate Chopin. The author uses descriptive qualitative methods in processing data. Through analysis of several existing sources and data. Based on available data, the writer discover how the psychology of depressed female characters from their environment is intimidated based on the short story. In fact women can become depressed because their freedom of expression is hampered and prohibited by tradition. With the writing of this thesis, it is hoped that the public can find out what exactly the meaning of women's emancipation is without having to put down women or men.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-116
Author(s):  
Bagus Afiansah ◽  
Sumartini Sumartini ◽  
Maharani Intan Andalas IRP

Penelitian ini dilandasi oleh kondisi kaum perempuan yang rentan mengalami kemiskinan. Banyak karya sastra yang digunakan sebagai kritik sosial terhadap permasalahan yang ada dalam kehidupan nyata, salah satunya adalah novel Genduk karya Sundari Mardjuki. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk : mendeskripsikan gambaran kemiskinan yang dialami tokoh perempuan, mendeskripsikan konstruksi gender, dan mendeskripsikan peran-peran tokoh perempuan mengatasi kemiskinan dalam novel Genduk karya Sundari Mardjuki. Sumber data penelitian ini adalah novel Genduk karya Sundari Mardjuki yang diterbitkan oleh Gramedia Pustaka Utama pada tahun 2016. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif-kualitatif dengan pendekatan kritik sastra feminis. Penelitian ini difokuskan pada kemiskinan yang dialami tokoh perempuan dan peran mereka mengatasi kemiskinan tersebut. Data diperoleh dengan menggunakan teknik baca-catat. Hasil analisis dari penelitian ini adalah sebagai berikut. 1) Terdapat gambaran kemiskinan yang dialami tokoh perempuan Genduk dan Yung yaitu tidak terpenuhinya kebutuhan dasar dengan layak. Kemiskinan yang dialami Genduk dan Yung disebabkan oleh ketergantungan pada satu sumber penghasilan sebagai petani tembakau dan konstruksi gender. Kemiskinan yang dialami Genduk dan Yung mengakibatkan ketergantungan pada pihak lain. 2) Kontruksi gender terdapat pada semua tokoh baik laki-laki maupun perempuan, tetapi tidak semua tokoh memiliki konstruksi gender yang dilekatkan masyarakat. Tokoh perempuan seperti Genduk, Bu As, dan Yung adalah tokoh-tokoh yang melawan konstruksi gender dengan hadir di ranah publik 3) Terdapat peran-peran yang dilakukan tokoh-tokoh perempuan dalam usahanya mengatasi kemiskinan yang mereka alami. peran-peran tersebut antara lain membuka akses penjualan tembakau, menjalankan peran publik sebagai petani tembakau, memberikan pendidikan untuk anak-anak di Lereng Gunung Sindoro, menciptakan alternatif lapangan pekerjaan bagi perempuan, dan melibatkan perempuan dalam mengambil keputusan. This study is based on the female condition which tend to gain poverty. Many literatures used as a social critique towards prolems in real life, such as Genduk  novel by Sundari Mardjuki. The aims of this research are : (1) to describe the poverty gained by female characters; (2) to describe gender construction; (3) to describe the roles of female characters in dealing with poverty in Genduk novel by Sundari Mardjuki. The source of the data is taken from Genduk novel by Sundari Mardjuki  published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama in 2016. The method used by the writer is descriptive-qualitative with literature feminism critique approach. This research is focus on the poverty occurred in female characters and their roles in dealing with it. The data are obtained by reading and taking notes technique. The results of the analysis are as follows. 1) The image pattern of poverty occurred in female characters in Genduk novel by Sundari Mardjuki including:  relative poverty covers the needs of clothes, houses, and foods, and also social image which covers the dependence on others and inability to adapt with environments. Seasonal poverty caused by economical sources. 2) The poverty occurred in women is related to gender construction prevail in each gender. However, Genduk, Yung and Bu As are the characters against the gender construction by existing in public 3)  Roles of female characters in dealing with poverty which happen to them and their environment. The roles is  opening an access to tobacco distributors, carrying out public role for women,  giving education for childrens at Sindoro Valley, creating alternative job vacancy for woman, women involvement in getting decision.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Fang Bo [方博]

The opera Madame White Snake (hereafter Madame), co-commissioned by Opera Boston and Beijing Music Festival, premiered at Boston Cutler Majestic Theater in February 2010. It was the first commissioned opera by Opera Boston.1 Based on the story from the famous Chinese ancient myth Bai She Zhuan 2 (in Chinese: 白蛇传), this opera’s libretto was created by a Singaporean American librettist, who has shed the story’s “traditional skin and taking on modern trappings” (Smith, 2019: 27) on purpose. When sniffing at male librettists’ discourses about female characters’ vulnerable and tragic lives in their operas, opera Madame’s initiator and librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs argues that women should seize the initiative to make their own decisions in life. The white snake, in her mind, ought to be a whole woman who is powerful and demonic, and yet, is also nurturing and caring, is capable of deep and intense love. In the first section of this article, I introduce the original legend’s background and the story outline in its operatic adaptation; I also trace back the opera’s commissioning process. After providing the background information of the story and the operatic version, then, in the second section I analyze the opera in terms of its transtextual figural gender construction in her characterization through comparative studies of the white and green snakes’ images from the sources of literary works, traditional xiqu scripts and operatic librettos. Referring to Lim’s personal growth and migrating history, as well as she and her husband co-founded charitable foundation’s missions and its recent IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) opera grant program partnering with Opera America, I aim to examine her gender construction of the “female” roles in the opera from the perspectives of feminism, interracial marriage; and heterosexual, transsexual, and homosexual relationships.


2019 ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
Isobel Hurst

With the telling and retelling of stories by the narrator and characters, Homer’s Odyssey seems to invite the reworking of episodes and characters in new forms. Modern poets favour the dramatic monologue for entering into dialogue with a revered canonical text, often in an irreverent or subversive manner. Dramatic monologues are crucial to the revisionist mythology of women writers, often representing female characters who are peripheral and largely silent in classical texts in order to articulate some element of the story that was previously untold. Poets such as Linda Pastan, Carol Ann Duffy, Louise Glück, and Judith Kazantzis use monologue and dialogue to create reworkings of the Odyssey that relocate Odysseus to the margins of the story and question the importance of his heroic adventures.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Gevintha Karunia Maully

<p>Sherlock BBC (2010) is one of the latest adaptations of Sherlock Holmes. By using the modern era as its sett ing, Sherlock off ers something different compared to previous Sherlock Holmes adaptations. This research focuses on the representation of female characters on Sherlock according to an issue that already chosen which is women and crime. The theories and concepts which are used on this research are gender construction in Victorian Era, the concept of femme-fatale and crime fi ction characteristics. I argue that there are some substantial diff erences of female characters’ representation in Sherlock compared to the original story. Despite those diff erences, female characters in Sherlock are still represented in a similar manner as the crime fictions characteristics in which women are always put in an inferior position and<br />the one who need men’s help.</p>


Author(s):  
Maryna Matlock

Using feminist theories, Maryna Matlock examines Leigh Bardugo’s Tsarpunk trilogy that lays bare the binaries between humanism and posthumanism, anthropocentrism and feminist multiplicity. Cartographer Alina becomes a Sun Summoner, a hybrid being yoked with magical antlers that amplify her extra-human powers but also put her under the control of the enigmatic, seductive Darkling. Matlock shows how Alina joins other female characters who resist humanist hegemony by means of self-aware gender performance. The border wars play out on land as well as on the bodies of these characters who embrace posthuman possibilities.


Neophilology ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 557-565
Author(s):  
Ilya V. Kozlov

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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nardeen Dow

The Harry Potter novels present their readers with traditional views of masculinity, male dominance and, by extension, female subjugation. Although the books may appear to portray female characters as strong and independent, the text focuses on outmoded ideas of male heroism. While many critics have discussed related topics like female power and sexuality in Rowling’s novels, this article focuses on the power structure at play and on the underlying homoerotic subtexts in the source text by making use of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s concept of homosociality. In addition, the article relies on fanfiction stories to shed light on the hidden homoerotic subtexts in the novels and examines the ways in which fanfiction allows and promotes a fluidity between homosocial and homosexual bonds between men. This article attempts to find answers to how fanfiction enables the readers to imagine male intimacy and what premises these stories consider. The article claims that fanfiction stories broaden Sedgwick’s term by combining male homosocial relationships with intimacy and non-homophobia and exposing the homosexual continuum in already written texts. The article further suggests that fanfiction can be considered a utopian place/space where male intimacy can be imagined.


2015 ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Aniela Korzeniowska

"Scotland Small? Our Multiform, Our Infinite Scotland Small?" Scotland's Literary Contribution to the Modern WorldHugh MacDiarmid’s poem "Scotland Small?" (1943) questions the widespread opinion at the time that Scotland was only a small country geographically with "nothing but heather!", showing how "marvellously descriptive" this may be, but also totally "incomplete". The issue addressed in this article is how Scottish letters, starting with the outstanding and multiform writings of the same Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve [1892-1978]) and ending with observations of the international significance of such contemporary Scottish poets as Carol Ann Duffy (b. 1955), the first female to become British Poet Laureate, have contributed to the development and diversity of literature far beyond the borders of Scotland. It is also in looking at the achievements of such diverse writers as Muriel Spark, James Kelman and Ian Rankin as well as poets Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edwin Morgan, Jackie Kay, or the present Scottish Poet Laureate Liz Lochhead, among others, that we can see how significant their literary oeuvre is for a better understanding of the modern world. Emphasis is also placed on the fact that although Scotland is undoubtedly a small country geographically, we can never – in reference to the title of this volume – say it is minor.„Szkocja mała? Nasza wielopostaciowa, bezmierna Szkocja mała?” Literacki wkład Szkocji do współczesnego świataWiersz Hugh MacDiarmid’a Szkocja mała? (1943) kwestionuje ogólnopanującą opinię w pierwszej połowie XX wieku, że Szkocja to tylko mały kraj, gdzie „nie ma nic innego poza wrzosem”, pokazując jednocześnie, że „opis może i jest wspaniały”, ale także wielce „niekompletny”. Temat niniejszego artykułu opisuje, jak literatura szkocka, poczynając właśnie od wybitnej i wielorakiej twórczości MacDiarmid’a (Christopher Murray Grieve [1892- 1978]), a kończąc na międzynarodowym znaczeniu takich współczesnych poetów, jak Carol Ann Duffy (ur. 1955), pierwsza kobieta piastująca funkcję nadwornego poety brytyjskiego monarchy, przyczyniła się do rozwoju i różnorodności literatury daleko poza granicami Szkocji. Uwypuklając osiągnięcia tak różnych powieściopisarzy, jak Muriel Spark, James Kelman i Ian Rankin, czy takich poetów, jak Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edwin Morgan, Jackie Kay czy Liz Lochhead (aktualnie nosząca tytuł Narodowego Poety Szkocji), widzimy jak ważna jest ich twórczość dla lepszego zrozumienia współczesnego świata. Ich wkład do literatury światowej pokazuje, iż powierzchnia Szkocji może jest rzeczywiście mała, ale to, co pochodzi z tego małego kraju, na pewno nie jest bez znaczenia.


Author(s):  
Işıl Tombul

Transmedia is a narrative that allows a message to meet with the user in different media. With media convergence, a story has become available in different media, and this has also led to the expansion of the market. Star Wars has an important transmedia and a wide fandom. Because the film is on the concept of power, the construction of power shows itself in this area with masculine symbolism. In the post-Disney period, the female characters are prominent, but the films protect the masculine narrative. The aim of this study is to examine the construction of gender in the transmedial narrative in Star Wars films together with the discussions in fandom. For this purpose, gender construction in the transmedial narrative are analyzed by case study.


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