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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Women -- Fiction."”.
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Women and subjugation: An evaluation of feminist rhetoric in selected novels by Mary Karooro Okurut, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Unity Dow, Elieshi Lema and Kaleni Hiyalwa
… feminist rhetoric in selected novels by African women fiction writers namely The Official Wife by Mary Karooro Okurut, Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Screaming of the Innocent by Unity Dow, Parched Earth by Elieshi Lema and Meekulu’s Children by Kaleni Hiyalwa. The focus was to …
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Parts of Women
Parts of Women contains a scholarly preface that discusses the woman's body both in fiction and in the experience of being a woman writer. The preface is followed by five original short stories. "Parts of Women" is a three-part story composed of three first-person monologues. "Controlled Burn" …
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The trouble with floating
1 PDF file (iii, 63 pages)
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The View From Here
<p>Set against the backdrop of both San Francisco and Los Angeles, The View From Here is a community-based novel that alternates point of view between four characters: Jackie Saunders, an overnight desk clerk searching for a purpose in life; Kayden Liu, Jackies childhood best friend, who must face …
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The Dirty Five
<p>No one woke up in the morning and decided, <em>yes, I’m going to take something that isn’t mine</em>. It usually starts with a thought. That thought taps into desperation, which causes the imagination to run wild. When Aqua suggested to us that we take what we wanted, at first it didn’t seem …
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Aspectos míticos de los personajes femeninos de Alvaro Cunqueiro
El presente trabajo se propone analizar los personajes femeninos de las novelas de Alvaro Cunqueiro, en funclon de su vision mi'tica de la mujer, desde la perspectiva que ofrece la teoria arquetfpica de Carl Gustav Jung. Para ello, en este capftulo resumiremos los puntos mas importantes del …
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Being the Beautiful Fool
… of short stories that analyzes my generation of women’s struggles. Framing the thesis are two stories involving three women, Lindsey, Jenny, and Sarah, “The Generation of Discontent” and “Revisions,” with the characters attempting to sort through love, success, and happiness in society. The piece …
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The Detrimental Effects of Organized Religion on Women in Lee Smith's Fiction.
… effects of religion on characters in Smith's fiction, with special attention to three general areas of religious influence on women. It considers Smith's illumination of the social, psychological, and artistic harm that organized religion can inflict on the lives of women.</p><p>This study …