scholarly journals SOME ILLUSTRATIONS OF FEMALE CHARACTERS IN ATSIZ'S BOZKURTLAR NOVEL

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (76) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
Turkish Woman ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Status ◽  
Turkish Society ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Better Than

In this article, the place of Turkish female characters in society is explained in Hüseyin Nihal Atsız's novel Bozkurtlar. The article consists of three chapters; the life of Hüseyin Nihal Atsız, the place of the ancient Turkish woman in society and Turkish female characters in the novel Bozkurtlar. In the first part of the article, information about Atsız's life, literary aspect and political identity is given. In the second part, the place of women in ancient Turkish society is explained in detail. In the third part, Bozkurtlar novel written by Atsız is discussed and Turkish female heroes in the story are depicted considering their various features. These women reflect to the reader as an ordinary woman who can hunt better than her husband when necessary, a young girl who is protected by the laws and who can resist the orders by relying on these rights, a sovereign who has gained the respect and love of her own people or a woman who loves her homeland enough to leave her title. In the conclusion part, it is emphasized that the woman who is the companion of her man in the difficult steppe life in the ancient Turkish society is respected as a valuable being in contrast to other societies in the same period. This article was written to reveal the status of women in ancient Turks. Keywords: Description, woman, Turkish, status, Atsız, Bozkurtlar

scholarly journals Unveiling Women Marginalization in Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 84-89
Author(s):  
Saira Siraj ◽  
Muhammad Tahir Anjum ◽  
Abdus Samad
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The West ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
The Status ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Better Than

The present study pursues the primaeval customs of patriarchy and its tormenting effects happening in the lives of women in Pakistan. The purpose of this research is to explore how patriarchal traditions, class differences, and their triple marginalization in the novel played chaos in the lives of females. Though the existing status of women is traditionally much better than that of women in the West but still they are not empowered and are deprived of basic rights. GC Spivak provides the theoretical foundations for this research through her theory, can the subaltern speak (1988). This research is based on qualitative textual analysis. The present study explores the status of women in Pakistan through the characterization of various female characters in the novel. This study concludes that they are portrayed as compliant and deserted beings deprived of every kind of individualism.

Hawthorne on Romantic Love and the Status of Women

PMLA ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-98
Author(s):  
Morton Cronin
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Love ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Hester Prynne ◽  
Status Of Women

The women that Hawthorne created divide rather neatly into three groups. Such fragile creatures as Alice Pyncheon and Priscilla, who are easily dominated by other personalities, form one of these groups. Another is made up of bright, self-reliant, and wholesome girls, such as Ellen Langton, Phoebe, and Hilda. The third consists of women whose beauty, intellect, and strength of will raise them to heroic proportions and make them fit subjects for tragedy. Hester Prynne, Zenobia, and Miriam—these women are capable of tilting with the world and risking their souls on the outcome. With them in particular Hawthorne raises and answers the question of the proper status of women in society and the relation, whether subordinate or superior, that love should bear to the other demands that life makes upon the individual. With the other types Hawthorne fills out his response to that question.

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 Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain: Divulgence of Characters

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Arindam Patra
Keyword(s):  
Young Lady ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Anita Desai ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Academy Award

British Guardian Prize winner and thrice nominated for Booker Prize, famous Indian novelist writing in English Anita Desai’s Sahitya Academy Award winning one of the masterpieces Fire on the Mountain published in1977. The book focuses on an elderly widow’s isolation and loneliness as it tells the story of Nanda Kaul who lives in Kasauli and leads a solitary existence. The old lady, Nanda lives alone in a colonial house on a slope. She gives nobody a chance to interfere with her secluded life. She had spent numerous years thinking about her husband, their kids, and numerous grandkids. She has turned into a loner and remains confined from everybody including an incredible grandkid. This is her circumstance until the point that the colossal grandkid touches base on her doorstep. Raka,a young girl who is wiped out and is as withdrawn as Nanda. The child lives in her very own kind of disconnection as she withdraws into a universe of inward dream where she makes undertakings of pursuing snakes, creatures, and phantoms in the serene slopes that encompass her and her incredible grandma. The old lady sees that both of them share things for all intents and purpose however that a noteworthy distinction exists also. Nanda has been a solitary person while the young lady was naturally introduced to that sort of presence. Nanda gradually starts to need to be a piece of the kid's life and needs to impart her reality to her. Her endeavours, be that as it may, seem, by all accounts, to be futile. Her awesome granddaughter will give nobody a chance to enter her life. Nanda is not debilitated and endeavours to associate with the child by imparting stories to her. Anita Desai talks of her writing as simply ‘stories,’ and of herself as a ‘storyteller’. In this very simple way she has beautifully painted the female characters and their sufferings in the novel Fire on the Mountain which is the focused area of this research article.

scholarly journals Marriage is a Mirage

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Dr. Hemanth Kumar Mekathoti ◽  
Dr. Narasinga Rao Barnikana
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Stress ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
Rural India ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Female Writers

Indian female writers attempt to depict the problems of women in the modern society dominated by male chauvinism and in rural India in particular, touching the feministic sensibilities. These female writers handle astonishing variety of themes. Among the women modern writers of fiction Kavery Nambisan occupies a unique place for more than one reason.She has begun her literary career by writing numerous children’s books. Female characters in her novels truly feel that love and marriage are not mere accidents but it is a trap and a cage where emotional stress haunts them through lack of care, bondage and love. The character ‘Shari’ of Kavery Nambisan’s second novel Mango–Coloured Fish (2000), is a young girl, who is caught in a complex, entanglement of uncertainties and disillusionments, and she has different notions about the institution of marriage. Nambisan successfully depicted the contemporary younger generation pre and past marriage dilemmas and ordeals effectively and lively. The protagonist Shari wants to trace out her self-identity and freedom in this world and this is clearly presented in the novel Mango –Coloured Fish.

scholarly journals Arab Internationalism and Gender: Perspectives from the Third Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 1949

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 578-583
Author(s):  
Nova Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
United Nations ◽  
National Identities ◽  
The Third ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Status ◽  
Transnational Connections ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Status Of Women

Historians of the Middle East have used gender to explore a range of topics, from how crises around gendered practices have contributed to the construction of national identities to women's roles in nationalist movements. Whereas early gender histories focused on single nation-states, recent scholarship has turned to regional and transnational connections. Yet the international sphere, the domain of nation-states and nongovernmental organizations in relation to each other, has yet to be examined through the lens of gender. In this essay, I argue that doing so yields new insights into the relationship between the national and the international in the Middle East, and into the process of rights claiming in postcolonial nation-states. I make this argument through a discussion of the third session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW).

Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food. By Michael G. Schatzberg. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. 292p. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 866-867
Author(s):  
Robert Fatton
Keyword(s):  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
The Third ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Status ◽  
The One ◽  
Status Of Women

Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa is an insightful, refreshing, and original book that refines and expands our understanding of the so-called “politics of the belly.” A phrase made famous by Jean Francois Bayart (The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly, 1993), the politics of the belly is the phenomenon of “eating” the fruits of power. The extent to which officeholders monopolize or share these fruits with the larger community has, however, significant consequences for their legitimacy. As Michael Schatzberg suggests, a “moral matrix of legitimate governance” (p. 35) embedded in familial and paternal metaphors shapes these belly politics. In turn, he argues that the moral matrix is rooted in four major premises. The first and second are related to the image of the ruler as a “fatherchief,” who has the obligation, on the one hand, to nurture and nourish his “family,” and on the other hand, to punish his “children” when necessary and pardon them when they truly repent. The third premise concerns the status of women in society; while they are not considered equal to men, rulers should, nonetheless, respect their role as “counselors and advisers.” The fourth premise “holds that permanent power is illegitimate and that political fathers…have to let their children grow up, mature, take on ever-increasing responsibilities in the conduct of their own affairs, and eventually succeed them in power” (p. 192).

scholarly journals BEDOUIN WOMEN STATUS UNDER THE PATRIARCHAL SYSTEM IN MIRAL AL TAHAWI’S THE TENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-20
Author(s):  
Zainab Abd Ali Hammood ◽  
Lajiman Bin Janoory
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Women's Identity ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

This research investigates the status of female characters under the oppressive patriarchal system of Bedouin in the novels of Miral Al Tahawi through the lens of radical feminist theory. Miral Al-Tahawi explains in her novel "The Tent" how women are marginalized and exploited in the context of parental restrictions imposed on them in Bedouin society, which is governed by harsh customs and values. The rationale comes from an understanding of the influence of this patriarchal authority over Bedouin women that reveals the status of women as oppressed and subject to the conditions that control women's identity and limit their freedom. This research will critically analyze the status of women in a gender-focused society. The current study found that Miral al-Tahawi embodied the suffering of Bedouin women through the suffering of the female characters in her novel. She reveals the extent of the suffering and patriarchal oppression that Bedouin women are subjected to in silence.

scholarly journals Camel bird's "The White Garden" : symbols and images in a space of their own

2000 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
María del Carmen Rodríguez Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Order ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Status

The White Garden shows the most worked, formal and contained use of the language existing in the chasm between the conscious and the unconscious. This is the territory that the novel explores because the female characters adopt different personifications and they subvert the personalities of the women they stand for enjoying the status of deluded women. The boundary between the conscious, the symbolic order superimposed by Goddard, and the unconscious, the pre-Oedipal phase in which the dreams strive to appear from the subconscious in the privacy of the cell becomes the mainstay of the novel. The outcome of all this is a rich and profuse web of influences and cross-referencing; a transposition of systems of signs that results in a dense and complex relationship whose imagery is achieved by means of the white garden, a representation of female freedom and triumph.

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