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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"feminist fiction"”.
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Feminist fiction and fictional feminism: Sarah Grand and the new woman novel
… Sarah Grand (1854-1943), a British novelist and feminist activist. Between 1880 and 1920 changes in laws affecting women and in social and scientific beliefs about gender difference led Grand to deromanticize and politicize the most traditional form of the novel, the marriage plot. The first …
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A knowledge of spirit and flesh: a novel and exegesis exploring the numinous feminine, the interior journey and sites of resistance within a patriarchal world
… is set in Reformation Slovakia in 1643, and fictionalises actual events of the time. These occurred in the city of Bratislava, and focussed on the laundry-maid Regina Fischer, brutally haunted by a malicious ghost intent on releasing his soul from purgatory.The novel tells the story of Regina …
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Swimming: Writing Childlessness, a Novel and Exegesis
… The novel, Swimming, in the first volume, is the fictional narrative of one woman's life and her experience of being childless. Kate, the protagonist of the novel, is not me though she has a number of similar experiences. Kate is the subject of her own narrative, a woman, whose existence presents …
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The Specter Of Gendered Violence: Tracing The Intertwined Legacies Of Colonialism And Sexism In Puerto Rican Literature
… following two chapters, my analysis pivots to feminist fiction by women writers that brings these issues to light. In my reading of Rosario Ferré’s “Amalia” and “La muñeca menor,” both published in Papeles de Pandora (1976), as well as Ana Lydia Vega’s “Pasión de historia” (1982) I examine how …
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The Contradictory Faces of “Sisterhood”: A Case-Study on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Its Theatrical Adaptation by James Willing and Leonard Rae, Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place, and Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies and Its Miniseries Adaptation on HBO
<p>Feminist “Sisterhood” has been a debatable term throughout multiple generations and its ideology is mostly rejected by feminists in the younger generation. The concept mainly denotes a sense of collectivity and it is viewed as a gendered term due to its coinage by second wave feminists as a …
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TOWNIES: MATRIARCHS AND MAYHEM
<p>This thesis is a collection of eleven short fiction stories written in a combination of genres including speculative, young adult, Southern gothic, and horror. It explores the experiences of Iranian diaspora and young women in rural communities such as East Texas. All the pieces in this …
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The Feminine Metamorphosis
The Feminine Metamorphosis is a fiction collection that explores the ways women adapt and change in order to survive. Eight narratives see their female protagonists grapple with challenges such as the pressures of society, the corrosion of girlhood, or the perils of a difficult home-life. The …
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Navigating the Wreck: Writing women’s experience of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. Salvaged from the Wreck: A novel -and- Diving into the Wreck: A critical essay
… lived through the occupation, using historical fiction to engage as broad a readership as possible. As well as literary praxis, research centres on analysis of relevant literature, including eight ethnically diverse published female memoirs and eleven women’s oral histories held by the National …