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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"women’s writing"”.
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Balancing discourse and silence : an approach to First Nations women’s writing
… of a cross-cultural reading of First Nations women’s writing in this time of sensitivity to the issues of appropriation and power inequities between dominant and minority cultures. A genre-based study, it is written from a deliberately split perspective: reading as both a white academic …
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Out Of Compass: English Women’s Writing And The Cultures Of Travel, 1604-1680
This dissertation argues that seventeenth-century women’s writing provides vital perspectives on early modern cultures of travel. Though recent scholarship has begun attending to both the historical cases of women who traveled abroad in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and representations of …
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Representations of Space/Place and their Relationship to Trauma in Contemporary Women’s Writing
… reflect issues relevant to traumatised fictional women, as depicted in the following: Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker, Paradise by Toni Morrison, Lucky by Alice Sebold, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell, Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne, Jeanette Winterson’s memoir Why …
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Narratological (Re)Visions: Feminist Poetics and Nontraditional Narrative Structure in Contemporary Women’s Writing
… narratology’s inability to fully account for women’s narratives, this research explores how contemporary women writers use nontraditional narrative techniques to challenge and expand the boundaries of narrative theory.</p> <p>The research combines a narratological analysis with feminist …
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Religion, Folk Belief and the Sacred Landscape in Women’s Writing in Wales, 1847 – 1909
… landscape, in twelve novels by six Anglophone women writers in Wales: Anne Beale’s <i>Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry</i> (1849), Eleanor Griffiths’ <i>World Worship</i> (1853), L.M. (Louisa Matilda) Spooner’s <i>Country Landlords</i> (1860), Anne Beale’s <i>Gladys the Reaper …
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21st century Black beauty resistance: Collectivism, individuality, and in/visibility in Black women’s writing
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Plants, animals, land : more-than-human relations and gendered survivance in early indigenous women’s writing
… from American Indian Stories, Legends and Other Writings (1921), Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems and The Sun Dance Opera (2001), Boys’ World (1910) and Hawai’i Island Legends: Pīkoi, Pele and Others (1949) using Indigenous knowledges, this thesis reads more-than-human beings as central to …
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Negotiating Nomadic Identities : The Tensions of Exile in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French and Spanish
This thesis examines exiled women’s negotiation of identity, and the literary<br/>expression of the inhabitation of the in-between space of exile. Displacement often represents banishment from a place of belonging and securely located identity, yet for women exiles the existence of an original …
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“God loves you but not enough to save you”: Patriarchal Authority and Feminine Punishment in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Ethel Cain’s Preacher’s Daughter
… by Ethel Cain. My research links confessional women’s writing and patriarchal authority to examine the oppressive nature exerted by patriarchal institutions over feminine subjects. I observe the characterization of feminine heroine within patriarchal landscapes in which Biblical ideas of …
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Rewriting the nation: a comparative study of Welsh and Scottish women's fiction from the wilderness years to post-devolution
… exciting literary works by Welsh and Scottish women writers, produced as the boundaries of nationality were being dismantled and ideas of nationhood transformed. This comparative study brings together, for the first time, Scottish and Welsh women writers’ literary responses to these historic …
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Women's actions, women’s words: female political and cultural responses to the Argentine state
… It pays particular attention to the emergence of women’s movements as well as women’s writing and the way in which both reflect and express the history of the Argentine state after independence. Beginning with a brief account of Argentine independence and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento as …
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Islamic culture and the question of women’s human rights in North Africa : a study of short stories by Assia Djebar and Alifa Rifaat
Using selected stories by two North African women writers, Alifa Rifaat of Egypt and Assia Djebar of Algeria, this study, entitled ‘Islamic culture and the question of women’s human rights in North Africa: a study of short stories by Assia Djebar and Alifa Rifaat’, analyzes the creative …
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Redefining ‘Chick-Lit’ and Women’s Publishing within Trade Publishing in South Africa
… for the main techniques used to position women’s writing: the term is often employed to market, sell and promote a title aimed at a specific audience, although findings show that few authors or publishers are comfortable using the term. Moreover, this is a genre that is changing due to …
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Something Gold Steps Out of the Skin
… The areas of research include écriture feminine (women’s writing), the lyric poem, as well as psychological and spiritual theories of self-actualization. The main topics include: desire, beauty, fecundity, and limitlessness. I approach these topics through my poetic examination of the natural …
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“‘Is this what motherhood is?’: Ambivalent Representations of Motherhood in Black Women’s Novels, 1953-2011”
… three novels written by African-American women that include ambivalent representations of motherhood: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha (1953), Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), and Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones (2011). Diverging from the image of the strong black mother that …
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(Re)gendering Spatial Politics: Museum as Mediating Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writings
… Museum as Mediating Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writings argues that public artistic spaces, which were not exactly a woman’s sphere during the time, became feminized through nineteenth-century women’s writings. By portraying how the affective relationships that female characters form …
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Bending Gen(re)der: A Negotiation of Identity through Language in Helene Cixous and the Self
… of her lover. Cixous’ use of ecriture feminine (women’s writing) layers the writing to create a playful, confusing, incongruent body of work in an attempt to subvert the phallogocentric. In my thesis I contemplate this ecriture feminine and explore how Cixous has used it to understand identity …
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Bending Gen(re)der: A Negotiation of Identity through Language in Helene Cixous and the Self
… of her lover. Cixous’ use of ecriture feminine (women’s writing) layers the writing to create a playful, confusing, incongruent body of work in an attempt to subvert the phallogocentric. In my thesis I contemplate this ecriture feminine and explore how Cixous has used it to understand identity …
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Queering Irish Women's Writing in the Twentieth Century
… the fiction of mid-twentieth-century Irish women writers Dorothy Macardle, Kate O’Brien, Elizabeth Bowen and Molly Keane. Seeking out the ghosts of modern Ireland, I turn to queer ways of reading, paying attention to the marginal and the disavowed. This new reading queers the archive of …
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