A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Anti-feminist Poetry in English and Arabic

Language is the fundamental element of communication and understanding in society. It relates immediately to human thoughts and is embodied in written or spoken signs or signals. The field that scientifically studies language (its forms and structures) is called Linguistics. Among the linguistic studies of language is Rhetoric which studies the importance of speech or texts for the audience. Rhetoric is the art of persuasion; it comprises different arguments raised by the speaker/writer depending on social, religious, moral or even traditional evidence in order to prove that the raised arguments are real. In this way, the writer/speaker associates the language to similar or related realities in order to reach the purpose of her/his language. However, presenting arguments and evidence it not always accurate because there are arguments that rely on weak evidence. The purpose of argumentative techniques is still to persuade the audience about a personal view or a societal concept. From this perspective, the feminist linguists suggest that rhetoric is actually masculine; that is, rhetoric is anti-feminist. Therefore, linguists presented a great deal of evidence to prove this theory and bring the feminist ideology into rhetoric. This study aims at providing a feminist rhetorical analysis of the anti-feminist poetry to study the status of women in rhetoric and whether the arguments that demean women are true or not. For this purpose, the current study utilizes Fiorenza’s (1995) model of analysis; a feminist rhetorical tool to analyze anti-feminist poems written by male poets in English and Arabic in order to study the arguments as well as the evidence the poets present against women.

study of Indian feminist poetry from 19th century to the present

Language is a medium to express the emotions. Writers journey via the sector of letters to give the passing a long time with hidden truth via the world of literature. This paper specializes in the illustration of Indian women in nineteenth, and twenty-first century Indian poetry. Within the context of poems reviewed Feminist principle paperwork the framework for analysis and interpretation. Standing function of Indian girls differ in Extraordinary technology In Indian poetry, 19th century poets recreated a photograph of weighted down Indian women. Analysis indicates that the protagonist in twenty-first century Indian poetry is lady with freelance thoughts. Male dominated society continually suppressed the identification of girls. However, inside the present kingdom of affairs lady began raise her voice for her identity. As time passes identification of girl’s adjustments from futility to fruitfulness. In this paper we will analysis the Indian feminist poetry from 1900 to present date.

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.

The Stone and the Wireless

In the final decades of the Manchu Qing dynasty in China, technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, telegraph, and photography were both new and foreign. In The Stone and the Wireless Shaoling Ma analyzes diplomatic diaries, early science fiction, feminist poetry, photography, telegrams, and other archival texts, and shows how writers, intellectuals, reformers, and revolutionaries theorized what media does despite lacking a vocabulary to do so. Media defines the dynamics between technologies and their social or cultural forms, between devices or communicative processes and their representations in texts and images. More than simply reexamining late Qing China's political upheavals and modernizing energies through the lens of media, Ma shows that a new culture of mediation was helping to shape the very distinctions between politics, gender dynamics, economics, and science and technology. Ma contends that mediation lies not only at the heart of Chinese media history but of media history writ large.

Poetic Lexicon At Andalusia Feminist Poetry

Every poet has a set of vocalizations that he used to use in his poetry until it became his own stylistic feature, and Ibn Rashiq Al-Qayrawani referred to this idea in his saying, “The well-known poets are well-known and familiar examples that the poet should not prepare nor use any other” (1). Each poet has his own language that distinguishes him from other poets, and they are multi-cultural and literary. They take care of it, as it represents the basic element of building poetry. Lexical even carries a great aura of synonym It has congeners (2), for each creative product has its own linguistic texture in which the poet uses a special use in what his spiritual experience interacts with and intensifies in its accomplishment of his artistic ability and his philosophy of using language to reveal the spirit of renewal and the power of poetic (3), and by this, he may come out with words from Its established nature with its frozen dictionary conditions to a new nature imposed on it by the development of meanings and connotations that the poetic experience underwent in the same poet was subjected to formulate his poetic experience, realizing in the same reader and listener a delicious presence and repercussion (4), and the skillful poet is the one who can formulate from the word what he wants and give it Hair heat. The headmaster of the poetic dictionary of the Andalusian poet finds that the word varies with the contrast of the subject that you are dealing with. For example, spinning requires words characterized by tenderness and sweetness, while rough preaching requires a luxurious sentence and the situation with praise, and if we find that the Andalusian poet has participated in most poetry arts and recorded thin poems in Most of its doors were used to flirt with a man just as it does in a man, and they were praised, spoiled and inherited in a manner similar to that of the man (5). Therefore, we found it appropriate to address the feminist Andalusian poetic lexicon, according to the purposes that the Andalusian poet addressed and became famous for.

EFL Female Students’ Perception of Feminist Poetry: A Case Study in the Department of English at Umm Al-Qura University

This study examines the perception of English as a Foreign Language female students in the Department of English at Umm Al-Qura University regarding feminist poetry. It offers an insight into their understanding of the genre and its themes and how these are relevant to women’s changing roles in Saudi Arabian society. Research was conducted among forty students who studied the Poetry course (731478-2) during the first and second semesters of the academic year of 2019-2020 at the university. The study adopts a qualitative methodology with a survey as the primary tool to collect data. Students were asked to complete a questionnaire which directly addressed the research questions and were then given a chance to add their comments and personal inputs. Given that women’s empowerment is a vital part of the Saudi vision of 2030, the majority of the responses show positive attitudes towards studying feminist poetry. In doing so, this study sheds light on the value of integrating feminist poetry as it raises students’ awareness of women’s rights in different cultures, allowing them to reflect on their own experience.

Trigger Warning: Poetry as Feminist Response to Media Headlines

In a chapbook of feminist poetry titled, Trigger Warning, the author responds to media headlines about violence, gender, race, and class through verse. The author uses poetic inquiry as a form of feminist methodology to collapse the false divide between the private and the public, as a form of embodied inquiry, and as feminist political response. The author wrote response poems to news headlines that “triggered” memories of past inequities as a way to speak to media representation and personal experience and presents them in the form of a chapbook—a short collection of poetry organized thematically. Trigger Warning wrestles with themes of sexual harassment, gun violence, sexual violence, and media representations of class, race, and gender identities to show how feminist poetry uses personal, embodied experience to critique existing systems and structures of oppression.