Gender and Sexual Identity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Cixousian Analysis of Hijra’s Resistance and Remaking of the Self

Hijra is a distinctive South Asia known for their gender and sexual difference and associated with their transgender and intersex identities. Otherwise known as transwomen, they are traditionally subjected to prejudices and embedded within narratives of exclusion, discrimination, and the subculture. As a result, Hijras are typically perceived as isolated, abject, and passive victims who remain social and economic peripheries. Concerning the stereotypical image of hijras, this study explores Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happinessecriture féminine, this study examines characters’ contestations and alterations of existing definitions of sex and gender. This framework allows for a manifestation of gender flexibility and feminine writing as a tool for self-emancipation. Both protagonists Anjum and Tilo, illustrate that hijras are not predetermined but are formulated in a complex process of a conscious rewriting of the self. While the former character resists heteropatriarchal normativity through her conscious alterations of the phallogocentric structure of her Urdu language, the latter defies societal conventions of family and marriage with unorthodox views and actions that are materialized in the writing of her story.

Écriture Feminine and the Poetry of Langston Hughes

This paper attempts to locate Hughes’s poetic diction as Ecriture feminine since like feminist poetry the diction of his poetry is rebellious and questions the hierarchical structure of society where White people hold more power and promote the idea of racial superiority. His desire to express the angst of the Blacks finds currency in the definition and explication of feminine writing. The focus of this paper will be on analysis of the poetry of Langston Hughes in the light of ecriture feminine in order to show how Hughes counters hegemony’s repressive rhetoric, challenges the loss of agency through the language of the dominant class and recreates another symbolic order.

Lecture Feminine: A Study of Uzma Aslam Khan’s Novel Thinner than Skin

The present study focuses on feminine writing in the context of Pakistani English writings. This study aims to explain one of the main strands of feminism i.e. l’ecriture feminine which means feminine writing. The current study is based on the representation of l’ecriture feminine in Uzma Aslam Khan’s novel, Thinner than Skin. The researcher has collected the data from the selected novel and made an in-depth analysis of the characters and scenes of this novel. Female body parts are pictured by the narrator at different points in the novel. Female characters remain the center of discussion in the selected narrative. It is identified from the discussion that all the major elements of L’ecriture feminine are portrayed in the text of the novel.

Le Massacre des Amazones : une reconnaissance des femmes de lettres ?

"At the time of its serial publication, The Massacre of the Amazons was a great success because it reflected the concern of the society of the Belle Epoque in the face of the growing importance of women’s literature. Its author, Han Ryner, did not cease to denounce the ridicule of these women who denaturalized themselves by appropriating the masculine privilege that is fictional writing. He was indeed ruthless for the novelists. But while expressing his hatred, he did not realize that his satirical work was involved, in different ways, in the promotion and recognition of feminine writing"

Prefacio: Escrituración Femenina de lo Cotidiano

This volume includes five papers that offer a sample of how women contribute to the history of literature with their “feminine writing of everyday life”'.

Notas sobre los aportes de Aralia López González a la crítica literaria: una breve revisión

This paper is a brief review of the contribution of Aralia López González as historian of Latin American literature, with particular emphasis on the Mexican narrative and its particular development in women writers born at the beginning of the last century and texts published until the nineties. Attentive to the issue of feminine writing, the researcher dedicated a large part of her academic life to observe, from the perspective of literary and cultural studies, the critical and editorial reception of women’s writing, as well as the themes and aesthetics in which consecrated and even marginalized women writers flourish. The possibility of studying this textual corpus was a way of making female voices visible, including that of the researcher herself and that of other writers and literary critics.

A Woman's Novel: Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird, and Hélène Cixous's Écriture Féminine

In the 1880s and 1890s, New Woman writers changed the face of British society and British fiction through their sexually open works, which critiqued old notions of marriage, and through their stylistic experimentation, which announced the modernist novel. New Woman scholarship has often studied their work in connection with that of French feminists of the late twentieth century, such as Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, and Hélène Cixous. This article reconsiders the nature of this connection through a close examination of novels by two of the most popular New Woman authors, Mona Caird (1854–1932) and Olive Schreiner (1855–1920). I read Caird's The Wing of Azrael (1889) and Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883) through the lens of Hélène Cixous's theories of écriture féminine, or feminine writing, to question the accusation of biological determinism which is frequently directed at both groups of writers. By applying Cixous's notions of feminine aesthetics, bisexuality, and alterity to Caird and Schreiner, my study provides the basis for a new understanding of their novels. More generally, it complements and qualifies the connection between the New Woman and so-called French feminism, thereby helping produce a more complex framework to study the fin de siècle.