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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Female narratives"”.
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Privately deviant, publicly disciplined: the violent seizure of female narratives in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Woman in White, and Lady Audley’s Secret
… laws. However, despite this usurpation of the female narrative, the insurgent testimony of the female voice persists in the mind of the reader. This thesis will examine the Sensation genre, focusing on the female narratives within the three novels. It will argue that the female narrative cannot …
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Herstory, subjectivity and the public sphere in female narratives of the liberation struggle in Namibia: The case of Ndeshi Namhila, Lydia Shaketange, Libertine Amathila and Tshiwa Trudie Amulungu
… subjectivity and the public sphere in these female narratives. Herstory in this study portrays autobiography as a tool of narrating women’s personal history, analysed from the postcolonial-feminist perspective; subjectivity depicts how these women represented themselves as makers of history, …
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Suffering and the Black Female Narrative in the Twentieth Century
… written by andforBlack women, where can Black female readers find joy in their history and culture without elements of grave sacrifice, abuse, and injustice? Though these instances of suffering do not account forall of theliterary experiences of Black women, we cannot ignore that this theme is …
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"The Island Has Two Sides": Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation
… is entitled: “The Island has two sides: Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation.” In it I will argue that many postcolonial narratives either consciously or unconsciously adapt Shakespeare’s The Tempest in an effort to resurrect repressed female narratives of resistance. Through an …
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VILE HUMOR: GIVING VOICE TO THE VOICELESS THROUGH DARK COMEDY IN SOUTHERN GOTHIC LITERATURE
… and reliance on highly charged melodramatic narratives. When these works are comic, they don't merely reflect the region's strife but attempt to transform it. This dissertation looks at how southern gothic writers Beth Henley, Fannie Flagg and Flannery O'Connor use dark comedy in their works …