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Kapilabh Anula. "Role of Women Protagonists in the Short Stories of Mavis Gallant." Creative Launcher 5, no. 6 (February 28, 2021): 211–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.5.6.29.
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Mavis Gallant was a well known Canadian short story writer. She wrote many stories, essays, reviews, plays. Gallant was deprived from the love of her parents in her childhood. After the death of her father and mothers remarriage, she was sent to seventeen different boarding schools. She had experienced a difficult childhood. She hated her mother the most and therefore after completing her studies she decided to stay alone. The mental trauma she faced made her very sympathetic in nature. She became very serious on the issues related to women. Gallant depicted the plight of women in the form of a story. Her many stories seem to be semi autobiographical but she denies completely. This paper is an attempt to bring forth few prevalent problems stated in the short stories of Canadian women.
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R, Bhuvaneswari, Cynthiya Rose J S, and Maria Baptist S. "Editorial: Indian Literature: Past, Present and Future." Studies in Media and Communication 11, no. 2 (February 22, 2023): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/smc.v11i2.5932.
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IntroductionIndian Literature with its multiplicity of languages and the plurality of cultures dates back to 3000 years ago, comprising Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas and Epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata. India has a strong literary tradition in various Indian regional languages like Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and so on. Indian writers share oral tradition, indigenous experiences and reflect on the history, culture and society in regional languages as well as in English. The first Indian novel in English is Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Rajmohan’s Wife (1864). Indian Writing in English can be viewed in three phases - Imitative, First and Second poets’ phases. The 20th century marks the matrix of indigenous novels. The novels such as Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1935), Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupé (2001), and Khuswant Singh’s Memories of Madness: Stories of 1947 (2002) depict social issues, vices and crises (discrimination, injustice, violence against women) in India. Indian writers, and their contribution to world literature, are popular in India and abroad.Researchers are keen on analysing the works of Indian writers from historical, cultural, social perspectives and on literary theories (Post-Colonialism, Postmodernity, Cultural Studies). The enormity of the cultural diversity in India is reflected in Indian novels, plays, dramas, short stories and poems. This collection of articles attempts to capture the diversity of the Indian land/culture/landscape. It focuses on the history of India, partition, women’s voices, culture and society, and science and technology in Indian narratives, documentaries and movies.Special Issue: An Overview“Whatever has happened, has happened for goodWhatever is happening, is also for goodWhatever will happen, shall also be good.”- The Bhagavad-Gita.In the Mahabharata’s Kurukshetra battlefield, Lord Krishna counsels Arjuna on how everything that happens, regardless of whether it is good or bad, happens for a reason.Indian Literature: Past, Present and Future portrays the glorious/not-so-glorious times in history, the ever-changing crisis/peace of contemporary and hope for an unpredictable future through India’s literary and visual narratives. It focuses on comparison across cultures, technological advancements and diverse perspectives or approaches through the work of art produced in/on India. It projects India’s flora, fauna, historical monuments and rich cultural heritage. It illustrates how certain beliefs and practices come into existence – origin, evolution and present structure from a historical perspective. Indian Literature: Past, Present and Future gives a moment to recall, rectify and raise to make a promising future. This collection attempts to interpret various literary and visual narratives which are relevant at present.The Epics Reinterpreted: Highlighting Feminist Issues While Sustaining Deep Motif, examines the Women characters in the Epics – Ramayana and Mahabharata. It links the present setting to the violence against women described in the Epics Carl Jung’s archetypes are highlighted in a few chosen characters (Sita, Amba, Draupati). On one note, it emphasises the need for women to rise and fight for their rights.Fictive Testimony and Genre Tension: A Study of ‘Functionality’ of Genre in Manto’s Toba Tek Singh, analyses the story as a testimony and Manto as a witness. It discusses the ‘Testimony and Fictive Testimony’ in Literature. It explains how the works are segregated into a particular genre. The authors conclude that the testimony is to be used to understand or identify with the terror.Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the select Partition writings by Muslim Women, explores the predicament of women during the Partition of India through Mumtaz Shah Nawaz’s The Heart Divided (1990) and Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column (2009). It addresses ‘Feminist Geography’ to escape precarity. It depicts a woman who is cut off from her own ethnic or religious group and tries to conjure up her memories as a means of coping with loneliness and insecurity.Nation Building Media Narratives and its Anti-Ecological Roots: An Eco-Aesthetic Analysis of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, analyses the post-Partition trauma in the fictional village, Mano Majra. It illustrates the cultural and spiritual bond between Mano Majrans — the inhabitants of Mano Majra — and nature (the land and river). It demonstrates how the media constructs broad myths about culture, religion, and nation. According to the authors, Mano Majrans place a high value on the environment, whilst the other boundaries are more concerned with nationalism and religion.Pain and Hopelessness among Indian Farmers: An Analysis of Deepa Bhatia’s Nero’s Guests documents the farmers’ suicides in India as a result of debt and decreased crop yield. The travels of Sainath and his encounters with the relatives of missing farmers have been chronicled in the documentary Nero’s Guests. It uses the Three Step Theory developed by David Klonsky and Alexis May and discusses suicide as a significant social issue. The authors conclude that farmers are the foundation of the Indian economy and that without them, India’s economy would collapse. It is therefore everyone’s responsibility—the people and the government—to give farmers hope so that they can overcome suicidal thoughts.The link between animals and children in various cultures is discussed in The New Sociology of Childhood: Animal Representations in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Garden in the Dunes, Amazon’s Oh My Dog, and Netflix’s Mughizh: A Cross-Cultural Analysis. It examines the chosen works from the perspectives of cross-cultural psychology and the New Sociology of Childhood. It emphasises kids as self-sufficient, engaged, and future members of society. It emphasises universal traits that apply to all people, regardless of culture. It acknowledges anthropomorphized cartoons create a bond between kids and animals.Life in Hiding: Censorship Challenges faced by Salman Rushdie and Perumal Murugan, explores the issues sparked by their writings. It draws attention to the aggression and concerns that were forced on them by the particular sect of society. It explains the writers’ experiences with the fatwa, court case, exile, and trauma.Female Body as the ‘Other’: Rituals and Biotechnical Approach using Perumal Murugan’s One Part Woman and Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women, questions the society that limits female bodies for procreation and objectification. It talks about how men and women are regarded differently, as well as the cultural ideals that apply to women. It explains infertility, which is attributed to women, as well as people’s ignorance and refusal to seek medical help in favour of adhering to traditional customs and engaging in numerous rituals for procreation.Life and (non) Living: Technological and Human Conglomeration in Android Kunjappan Version 5.25, explores how cyborgs and people will inevitably interact in the Malayalam film Android Kunjappan Version 5.25. It demonstrates the advantages, adaptability, and drawbacks of cyborgs in daily life. It emphasises how the cyborg absorbs cultural and religious notions. The authors argue that cyborgs are an inevitable development in the world and that until the flaws are fixed, humans must approach cyborgs with caution. The Challenges of Using Machine Translation While Translating Polysemous Words, discusses the difficulty of using machine translation to translate polysemous words from French to English (Google Translate). It serves as an example of how the machine chooses the formal or often-used meaning rather than the pragmatic meaning and applies it in every situation. It demonstrates how Machine Translation is unable to understand the pragmatic meaning of Polysemous terms because it is ignorant of the cultures of the source and target languages. It implies that Machine Translation will become extremely beneficial and user-friendly if the flaws are fixed.This collection of articles progresses through the literary and visual narratives of India that range from historical events to contemporary situations. It aims to record the stories that are silenced and untold through writing, film, and other forms of art. India’s artistic output was influenced by factors such as independence, partition, the Kashmir crisis, the Northeast Insurgency, marginalisation, religious disputes, environmental awareness, technical breakthroughs, Bollywood, and the Indian film industry. India now reflects a multitude of cultures and customs as a result of these occurrences. As we examine the Indian narratives produced to date, we can draw the conclusion that India has a vast array of tales to share with the rest of the world.Guest Editorial BoardGuest Editor-in-ChiefDr. Bhuvaneswari R, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. She has pursued her master’s at the University of Madras, Chennai and doctoral research at HNB Central University, Srinagar. Her research areas of interest are ELT, Children/Young Adult Literature, Canadian writings, Indian literature, and Contemporary Fiction. She is passionate about environmental humanities. She has authored and co-authored articles in National and International Journals.Guest EditorsCynthiya Rose J S, Assistant Professor (Jr.), School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. Her research interests are Children’s Literature, Indian Literature and Graphic Novels.Maria Baptist S, Assistant Professor (Jr.), School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai. His research interests include Crime/Detective fiction and Indian Literature.MembersDr. Sufina K, School of Science and Humanities, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, IndiaDr. Narendiran S, Department of Science and Humanities, St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
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Kustec, Aleksander. "Unravelling the mystery of reality : typical Canadian elements in the short stories of Alice Munro." Acta Neophilologica 31 (December 1, 1998): 105–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.31.0.105-114.
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The contemporary Canadian short story has a specific place among literary genres in Canadian literature. It culminated in the sixties of this century, when the Canadians looked to their literature with greater interest. Canadian short story writers started to write in a different tone, and showed special interest for new themes. After 1960 authors, such as Henry Kreisel, Norman Levine, Anne Hebert, Mavis Gallant, Ethel Wilson, Joyce Marshall, Hugh Hood, Hugh Garner, Margaret Laurence, Audrey Callahan Thomas, Mordecai Richler, and Alice Munro, refused to use the traditional plot, and showed more interest for characterisation. By using a typical Canadian setting, their stories began to reflect social events of their time. A new awareness of identity stepped forward, and above all their stories became a reflection of the diversity of life in all Canadian provinces. The contemporary Canadian short story writers began to overstep the boundaries of their imagination.
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Kustec, Aleksander. "Unravelling the mystery of reality : typical Canadian elements in the short stories of Alice Munro." Acta Neophilologica 31 (December 1, 1998): 105–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.31.1.105-114.
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The contemporary Canadian short story has a specific place among literary genres in Canadian literature. It culminated in the sixties of this century, when the Canadians looked to their literature with greater interest. Canadian short story writers started to write in a different tone, and showed special interest for new themes. After 1960 authors, such as Henry Kreisel, Norman Levine, Anne Hebert, Mavis Gallant, Ethel Wilson, Joyce Marshall, Hugh Hood, Hugh Garner, Margaret Laurence, Audrey Callahan Thomas, Mordecai Richler, and Alice Munro, refused to use the traditional plot, and showed more interest for characterisation. By using a typical Canadian setting, their stories began to reflect social events of their time. A new awareness of identity stepped forward, and above all their stories became a reflection of the diversity of life in all Canadian provinces. The contemporary Canadian short story writers began to overstep the boundaries of their imagination.
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Dean, Joanna. "Aspiring Women, Short Stories by Canadian Women, 1880-1900, and Pioneering Women, Short Stories by Canadian Women, Beginnings to 1880. Edited by Lorraine McMullen and Sandra Campbell. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1993." Urban History Review 24, no. 1 (1995): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1019239ar.
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Sarip, Hasmina Domato. "The Images of Women in Selected Contemporary Short Stories by Contemporary Filipino Women Writers." International Journal of English Language Studies 3, no. 2 (February 27, 2021): 111–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijels.2021.3.2.12.
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This inquiry sought to discover the images of women as portrayed in the contemporary short stories entitled “Fallout” by Maria L.M. Fres-Felix and “Language” by Sunantha Mendoza. Feminist Literary Criticism, specifically liberal, radical, Freudian, socio-cultural, stereotypical feminist perspective were employed to critically analyze the actions and feminist perspective of the female characters. The study attempted to meet the following objectives: 1) to describe the images of women as depicted by the authors in the stories; 2) to identify the dominant devices used in the stories; and, 3) to determine the feminist themes conveyed in the stories. Through examining and analyzing the short stories, different images of women were discovered. The close textual reading resulted in the researcher’s coming up with the following findings: female characters are portrayed as involved, sophisticated, strong-minded, competitive, independent and unconventional. The dominant devices are symbols, juxtaposition, foreshadowing, imagery, idiom, metaphor, irony and figures of speech were effectively utilized in the stories to probe the images of women that are found in each story. Indeed, women will come a long way in facing the battle against patriarchal values.
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Jenainati, Cathia. "Mapping the Female Self through the Canadian Landscape: Short Stories by Canadian Women Writing in English." Literature Compass 6, no. 1 (January 2009): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00587.x.
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Juanda, Juanda, and Azis Azis. "PENYINGKAPAN CITRA PEREMPUAN CERPEN MEDIA INDONESIA: KAJIAN FEMINISME." LINGUA: Journal of Language, Literature and Teaching 15, no. 2 (August 29, 2018): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.30957/lingua.v15i2.478.
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One of the female phenomena which was authored by the authors short stories in Media Indonesia is the narrative of oppressed women. The purpose of this study is to explore the image of women in short stories in the Media Indonesia. This research is descriptive qualitative research that focuses on the image of women. The approach used in this research is the feminism approach. The data were analysis techniques using heuristic and hermeneutic techniques. The results of the study indicate that there are various negative treatments experienced by women. The author used the short stories as a representation of their images through the Media Indonesia daily. Women's image is manifested in the form of physical image, psychic, helpless, resigned to the situation, housewife, loyalty, child guard, domestic, husband's companion, and social.
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Susanto, Dwi. "Pandangan Pengarang terhadap Perempuan dalam Cerpen Tahun 1950-1960-an Karya Pengarang Peranakan Tionghoa-Indonesia." Diglosia: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, Sastra, dan Pengajarannya 5, no. 4 (November 1, 2022): 883–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.30872/diglosia.v5i4.526.
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This paper looks at the views or constructions of Chinese peranakan authors towards women in that era. Issues discussed: (1) how Peranakan authors narrate women in their works; (2) the reasons for the Chinese Peranakan authors in the 1950s-1960s to narrate women. This study uses the point of view of feminist literary criticism. The object of this research is the 1950-1960s short stories and the author's perspective on women. The data of this research is the narrative of short stories that describe the image of women, the author's social construction, and the idea of androcentrism. The data interpretation technique follows the way of feminist literary criticism. The results of the study: (1) women are presented and controlled by men and are controlled by social construction; (2) the idea of morality and the economic context becomes a construction that the author interprets through androcentrism; (3) morality is misinterpreted by male authors and women as victims who are silenced in the name of morality. It has resulted in women being unable to speak up and follow androcentrism in the name of tradition and the sacred concept of morality. Morality is misinterpreted as sexuality and borne by women.
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Yi, Tin Moe. "Representation of Males and Females in Myanmar Culture through a Selection of Myanmar Literary Works in English." Asian Culture and History 8, no. 2 (May 9, 2016): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ach.v8n2p32.
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<p class="1Body">In Myanmar, although men and women have equal rights under the customary law, conservative cultural belief prevents to enjoy these rights between men and women. Therefore men are still superior and women are subordinate in Myanmar society. To reach a better understanding of whether equality exists between men and women in Myanmar society, a particular type of literary work which is reflection of Myanmar culture can be explored. Therefore, Myanmar short stories, written originally in English by Myanmar author Daw Khin Myo Chit and the selection of Myanmar short stories written originally in Myanmar by various kinds of Myanmar authors but translated into English by Myanmar writer Ma Thanegi, are chosen to be investigated. The aim of the present study is to investigate the way in which males and females are represented in Myanmar short stories which reflect Myanmar culture. Gender analysis by Khurshid, Gillani, and Hashmi (2010) is conducted to analyze the data. The quantitative and qualitative methods were used to analyze short stories. It is found that the data found in Daw Khin Myo Chit’s short stories and Ma Thanegi’s translated works were the same. The results showed that there is no significant difference between males and females except occupational roles. It can also be observed that in analyzing Myanmar short stories, although women play the important roles as equal as men in most cases, women are still inferior rather than men according to Myanmar culture and Myanmar tradition.</p>
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FARISTA, RUPAL a. "Short stories of Mulk Raj Anand: A Storehouse of Indian Myths and Traditions." Dev Sanskriti Interdisciplinary International Journal 4 (July 31, 2014): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.36018/dsiij.v4i0.48.
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Our traditions and beliefs give rise to many myths. Many a times the Indian authors used their knowledge about myths and traditions and made stories based on them. Mulk Raj Anand is also highly traditional author who was impressed by the stories told to him as a child by his grandmother and he uses the mythical tales in his short stories. By reading these short stories, any reader is also acquainted with the traditional myths of our country. This article is an endeavor to bring to notice various myths used by Anand in his various short stories and the effect of these myths on the readers. Anand also tries to show the effect of the traditional beliefs and customs on the Indian women and proclaims the fact that women had to suffer at many places on the name of customs and traditions. In the veil of the beliefs and traditions of the family or castes, women were subjected to many forms of injustices and they too accepted all the torture on the name of custom. Dowry, Sati and harassment to widows are some of the common features he uses in his stories to depict the predicament of Indian women in the 20th century. He has also drawn attention of the readers towards the abusive language used for the women at that time. These stories help us analyze the status of women of India in the 20th century.
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Mustikawati, Aquari. "PEREMPUAN INDONESIA TAHUN 1970-an DAN 1980-an DALAM CERPEN KARYA DJUMRI OBENG." Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra 18, no. 2 (February 15, 2019): 270–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/bs_jpbsp.v18i2.15515.
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This study aims to illustrate the image of Indonesian women in the 1970s and 1980s in three short stories by Djumri Obeng, "Bidadari di Tengah Hutan”, “Anah", and “Peni". The three short stories represent the picture of the circumstances of women in those days. The problem focused on this research is how the image of Indonesian women in the 1970s and 1980s and the authors' views on the marginalization of women in those days. Descriptive qualitative method is used to solve the problems, by using positivism and phenomenological paradigm to understand human behavior and their frame of mind. By using the theory of focalization, this paper analyzes the views of society at that time which is depicted in focalizator figures in the three short stories. The results showed that women in the 1970s and 1980s experienced marginalization through three spaces, namely social, economic, and stereotyped. It can be concluded that women with low educational and economic levels during that period were targeted for insolvency because they lacked fighting power.
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Rewa, Natalie. "Le Madonne Feministe: Italian Canadian Women Playwrights." Canadian Theatre Review 104 (September 2000): 24–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.104.004.
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Trying to discuss what Italian Canadian women playwrights have in common—what concerns and dramatic methods—might seem to be an impossible task. The four playwrights under consideration here, Maristella Roca, Caterina Edwards, Mary Melfi and Toni Ellwand, have demonstrated different levels of theatrical engagement: Maristella Roca and Toni Ellwand are primarily theatre artists and are currently collaborating on a production using the poetry of Gianna Patriarca, while Caterina Edwards and Mary Melfi have each written only one play; Edwards writes fiction; and Melfi has published several collections of poetry and two novels. A significant point of intersection in their plays is the problem of how to represent the “performances” of women. While social performance is represented in many poems, short stories and novels by Italian Canadian women writers, writing for a female actor is quite a different matter. These four have chosen to make plays that present a liberating female presence, one that offers fresh possibilities for verbal expression and behaviour.
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Hussain, Noor, and Nazia Zaman. "Resisting Marginalisation in the Select Short Stories of Bessie Head." Integrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities 4, no. 3 (May 18, 2024): 45–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.55544/ijrah.4.3.9.
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The African black woman is said to suffer from double marginalisation –marginalized by colonialism and by patriarchy. Bessie Head, one of the most influential authors of South Africa, voices the marginalization faced by the women of her country. In her works, she narrates the tales of underprivileged village women and their predicament to exist as mere humans in their own society and among their own people. Though she does not consider herself a feminist, her protagonists are always females and they become the mouthpiece of the entire subjugated section of the society. Head’s short stories depict the breakdown of traditional structures of the society and also the erosion of security that the institution of marriage offered to the women. This paper is an attempt to study two of her short stories to highlight the suffering of her protagonists and also how they overcome them and present a new image of themselves.
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De Pinho Santoro Lopes, Carolina. "A STORY OF HER OWN: MEMORY AND NARRATIVE IN SHORT FICTION BY MARGARET LAURENCE, ALICE MUNRO AND MARGARET ATWOOD." Cadernos de Letras da UFF 31, no. 61 (December 15, 2020): 408–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/cadletrasuff.v31i61.44143.
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The objective of this paper is to analyze the interplay of narrative, memory, and identity in short stories by Canadian authors Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood. The three works explored in the article are narratives told from the perspective of characters who delve into their own past to make sense of their present, thereby revealing the strong bond between the act of remembering and the construction of one’s self.
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Tran Thi Hong, Nhung. "The issue of gender equality in Vietnam short stories with female authors in nowadays that writes about love, marriage, family." Journal of Science Social Science 66, no. 2 (May 2021): 44–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.18173/2354-1067.2021-0024.
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With the initiative in creative sense and concept of art consistently that writes about love, marriage, family, Vietnamese short stories for female in nowadays, they forcefully confirmed the point of view is equal between men and women. Through the world of art to be created, the powerfull aspects of this have been opened up. The article focuses on clarifying the manifestations of gender equality issues in vietnam short stories with authors are female in nowadays that is one of the social problems - unique aesthetics.
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Loriggio, Francesco. "Italian Canadian italophone fiction: The works of Nino Famà." Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies 55, no. 3 (November 2021): 805–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00145858211049099.
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Within the Italian Canadian literary corpus, fiction written in Italian has occupied a special spot. Because Italian Canadian authors have written primarily in English or, secondarily, in French, works by italophone writers have had an even more meagre circulation than that, already itself quite reduced, enjoyed by their anglophone or francophone counterparts. Yet, despite this limitation or perhaps also because of it, Italian Canadian italophone is nonetheless literature which does raise important issues. Focusing on the short stories and novels of Nino Famà, this article traces those issues in order to show not only how they summarize the main thematic and stylistic gist of Italian Canadian italophone fiction but also, most importantly, how they relate to some of the concerns which have always been associated with the Western modern novel.
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Cukier, Wendy, Samantha Jackson, Mohamed A. Elmi, Erin Roach, and Darren Cyr. "Representing women? Leadership roles and women in Canadian broadcast news." Gender in Management: An International Journal 31, no. 5/6 (July 4, 2016): 374–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-04-2015-0035.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the representation of women in Canadian broadcast news coverage, exploring the notion of substantive representation as it relates to gender, leadership and framing. Design/methodology/approach Using computer-aided text analysis software, the authors analyzed the frequency of women appearing in on-air roles, the way in which they are framed, as well as technical and expressive details, such as how they are featured. In total, the authors analyzed representation of 2,031 individuals in the four suppertime local news broadcasts from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Framed in an ecological model of complex social change, this paper focuses on understanding how women are presented in Canadian broadcast media. Findings This study finds that women are under-represented in Canadian broadcast media. Furthermore, it finds that women are less likely to be framed as leaders or experts and are less likely to hold news host or anchor positions. For all major news broadcasters analyzed, women are less likely to be portrayed positively or in leadership/expert positions and are more often represented as victims. They are less likely to appear on screen and are more likely to be referred to off-screen, paraphrased and cited rather than speaking for themselves. Research limitations/implications By framing this study in an (critical) ecological, this study moved beyond required descriptive benchmarking to examine the degree of substantive representation of women. However, the sample of the study is only a snapshot of Canada’s largest city, and, therefore, more research involving further a comparative analysis of cities, a variety of print sources and online media outlets is needed. Future research might include more qualitative analysis of the representation, the type of representation and the factors affecting levels of representation. For example, such research might explore the practices in broadcast organizations, the way in which stories are framed and how guests selected. Also of interest is the relationship between women’s representation at the decision-making table, as an input, and the representation of women in on-air roles, as an outcome. Practical implications The implications of this article are important for understanding the complex factors affecting female leadership across sectors, particularly, the Canadian broadcast industry, the barriers they face and the strategies that may lead to their advancement. Originality/value This study moved beyond descriptive benchmarking to examine the degree of substantive representation of women by coding the frames, roles and means of quotation experienced by women on broadcast news.
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SAĞLAM CAN, Esengül. "A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON KATE CHOPIN’S “A RESPECTABLE WOMAN” AND SEVGI SOYSAL’S “TANTE ROSA AFOROZ EDILIYOR”." TOBIDER - International Journal of Social Sciences 6, no. 2 (September 30, 2022): 110–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.30830/tobider.sayi.11.7.
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Feminist literary criticism focuses on what women are doing in a fictional work, how they interact with men, what the moral and social codes for women are, and what the women’s role in society is. Feminist criticism provides new evaluations and historical, social, and interdisciplinary points of view to every text. It is also thought that women writers look at the world differently and create their works within a predominantly female sensibility. This study presents a comparative analysis of the themes and heroines in the short stories “A Respectable Woman”, by Kate Chopin, and “Tante Rosa Aforoz Ediliyor”, by Sevgi Soysal. Sevgi Soysal and Kate Chopin not only describe the individual feelings of women but also criticize the patriarchal structure of society in their works. By doing a feminist reading, it will be tried to understand the aims of Chopin and Soysal while describing and demolishing the cult of ideal womanhood in their writings. In this article, the woman image will be problematized in the light of feminist literary criticism, and it is examined how this image is shaped in these short stories. It is aimed to show that although the authors and short stories’ protagonists are from different eras, societies, and cultures, the reflections of politics, controlled by patriarchy, have similar characteristics.
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Hassan, Hazha S., and Chinar K. Tayib. "Irony in Kate Chopin’s Selected Short Stories." Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 1 (June 26, 2020): 137–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.14500/kujhss.v3n1y2020.pp137-144.
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Many authors often employ irony as a powerful literary device since it makes the language of their literary works more suggestive and more emphatic. They usually use irony as a kind of satire, thereby to emphasize faults in their characters or in society in general. Among the American writers who use irony in their short stories is Kate Chopin. This study aims to discuss the nature of irony in Kate Chopin’s three short stories, “The Story of an Hour”, “The Storm”, and “Desiree’s Baby”. The study tries to analyze the presence of three main types of irony, their functions, their relation to the theme or message of the story, and the reasons behind the use of irony. The study concludes that though Chopin satirizes her contemporary society through irony, her irony is neither humorous nor funny but invariably tragic. She deliberately uses irony in her stories. She creates an atmosphere of suspense by adding turns and twists to the stories in order to shock the reader. Another reason for using irony is to employ her unconventional ideas about the condition of women and to bring the reader to the main theme of the story. Moreover, the ultimate goal behind all is to criticize as well as to highlight the flaws of the American patriarchal society of her lifetime and to support her feminist ideas.
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R. Banasure, Shravan. "PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN AND THEIR STRUGGLES IN RISHI REDDIS KARMA AND OTHER STORIES." International Journal of Advanced Research 11, no. 10 (October 31, 2023): 320–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/17710.
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Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi is a collection of short stories that explores the lives of Indian immigrants in the United States, particularly focusing on the experiences of women. Reddis stories are rich with cultural nuances and provide a poignant look into the challenges and triumphs of these women as they navigate the complexities of their dual identities and the expectations placed upon them. In it women play a central role in the narrative, and their plight is a recurring theme throughout the collection. Reddi skillfully portrays the multifaceted struggles faced by these women as they grapple with issues of tradition, family, ambition, and cultural assimilation. Through various characters and their interconnected stories, Reddi paints a vivid picture of the unique challenges that women from Indian backgrounds often face. The analysis focuses on the social, cultural, and gender dynamics that shape the lives of women in the stories. Through an examination of key themes, character development, and narrative techniques, this article aims to shed light on the challenges faced by women in the context of Indian society. The article also discusses the authors intent in highlighting these issues and the impact of her work on raising awareness about womens rights.
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Rahmatika, Citra Ayu. "A Content Analysis On the Quality of Short Stories in Short Stories For Children's Published By Children's Book Trust." LUNAR 2, no. 02 (November 5, 2018): 33–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.36526/ln.v2i02.533.
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Reading is one of the language skills. There are four components of the language skills are: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Reading is one of the important skills in teaching English. In this research, the researcher is interested to discuss about a content analysis on the quality of short stories in short stories for children’s published by children’s book trust. The purpose of this research are to measure the quality of short stories in short stories for children’s published by children’s book trust, and to identify the readability and gender equality of short stories for children’s published by children’s book trust. The design of this research was descriptive qualitative research. To get the data of the research, The researcher used a documentation. The researcher used flesch reading ease formula. The data sources from this research taken from book entitled short stories for children’s published by children’s book trust. In this book consist of 17 titles from 17 authors. Based on the result of the data analysis of documentation, it can be known that all of short story can be read by children from the age 8 – 11 years old. Types of reading level in this short stories are easy and very easy. From the 17 short stories, total number of short stories that tell about men life there were 12. While total number of short stories that tell about women life there were The researcher concluded that the quality of short stories for children’s published by children’s book trust is enough. The readability of short stories in short stories for children’s published by children’s book trust is easily understood by children’s and all short stories are suitable as children’s books. The gender equality in short stories for children’s published by children’s book trust is gender bias. The short stories only focus on one gender. The suggestion are for the readers, the researcher suggest that the readers can selecting to choose short stories which is most suitable to reading. The reader can also apply the result of this study as feedback on their reading activities, improve their knowledge and experience in choosing appropriate book, so that the reader is better in reading skill. For the other researchers, it would be useful for the other researcher to use the result as additional reference for those who want to conduct research. The researcher suggest that the other researchers can add research on the short story
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Astuti, Tri. "Dunia Perempuan dalam Kumpulan Cerita Pendek “Jeramba-Jeramba Malam” Karya Mimi La Rose, Dkk." Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajaran (KIBASP) 3, no. 2 (June 23, 2020): 335–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.31539/kibasp.v3i2.1210.
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This research aims to describe the world of women in a collection of short stories Jeramba-jeramba Malam by Mimi La Rose, et al. The research method used is a qualitative description method with content analysis techniques. Data collection is done through documentation techniques. The collected data were analyzed based on the concept of interactive techniques, including data reduction, data presentation, data analysis, and drawing conclusions. The results of the study, the world of women domestically, publicly, as well as a combination of domestic and public. The picture of the world of women publicly gives birth to the image of women who are independent, strong, decisive, brave, ignorant, and ignoring women's honor; domestically, giving birth to the image of a woman who is gentle, patient, loyal, weak / helpless, resigned / accepts the provisions of destiny; while the combination of domestic and public breeds an image of women who are strong, decisive, independent, less responsible, ignorant, unfaithful. From the author's perspective, the author generally describes the world of women domestically. The tendency of women writers to describe the domestic world of women because the authors are still influenced by the traditions and mindset of the community who think women are better at home, as the person in charge of the household, while male authors tend to see the world of women physically and psychologically.
Keywords: Analysis, Women's World, Short Stories of Night Servants
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Rohman, Hudha Abdul. "MARGINALISASI AGAMA DAN ETNIS TIONGHOA DALAM RIWAYAT NEGERI YANG HARU." ALAYASASTRA 14, no. 1 (November 16, 2018): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.36567/aly.v14i1.125.
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This paper discusses how these forms of marginalization that is done the new order government (Orde Baru) which displayed in the collection of elected Kompas short stories in the 1981-1990 Riwayat Negeri yang Haru. A collection of short stories written by 55 authors and published in 2006. This paper uses the theory of marginalization by Alcock (1993) and the approach of the new historicism of Stephen Grenblatt. The results of this paper found that the elected Kompas short story in 1981-1990 represent situations and social conditions of the new order government which marginalize people and minority groups from various aspects such as economic, social, political, and religious. Marginalization against depicted through various social phenomena associated marginalization of women, the centralization of power, religion, and ethnic Chinese.Keywords: marginalization, Orde Baru, short story, Kompas, new historicism
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Cuiping, Hao, and Cao Xuefei. "A Corpus-Based Study on the Chinese Translation of Run Away from the Perspective of Androgyny." English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies 5, no. 3 (August 8, 2023): p214. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/eltls.v5n3p214.
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Run Away, the collection of eight short stories written by Nobel laureate Alice Munro examines the lives of Canadian women throughout the last century. As a female writer’s novels, it inevitably flashes valuable female consciousness. From the perspective of androgyny, this thesis will explore the gender awareness in Li Wenjun’s Chinese version on the lexical level by investigating corpus data and analyzing specific cases. This study holds that male translators with androgynous perspectives could cross the gender border and translate from other gender’s perspective to make feminine elements visible.
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Semwal, Dr Sakshi. "Dislocation, Displacement and Immigrant experience in the Short Stories of Shauna Singh Baldwin." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 7, no. 1 (January 9, 2019): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v7i1.6272.
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The Indian Diaspora is a wonderful place to write from, and I am lucky to be a part of it-Kiran Desai
Indian Women writers like Kiran Desai, BhartiMukherjeee, Chitra Banerjee, Jumpa Lahiri all are dealing with the issues of Diasporic Consciousness, dislocation, displacement and immigrant experiences in their writings. Shauna Singh Baldwin, a Canadian-American writer of Indian origin is one of the most significant writers of Indian diaspora writing experiences of Sikh community during partition of Indian and its aftermath. In molding the personality of Shauna Singh Baldwin, the concept of nation, home and belongingness to the place of origin finds an important role. She has adopted and assimilated the elements of both home and host cultures and that is clearly revealed through her writings. As she says: “I wrote because I needed to make sense of my world by describing it. Eventually the stories weren't about me and my experience, but about situations, problems, feelings, metaphors and images that just refuse to go away.”
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Dewi, Novita. "CHILD MARRIAGE IN SHORT STORIES FROM INDONESIA AND BANGLADESH: VICTOR, SURVIVOR, AND VICTIM." International Journal of Humanity Studies (IJHS) 2, no. 1 (September 17, 2018): 51–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/ijhs.v2i1.1511.
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Early marriage is a total destruction to the human rights of children. Contrary to the conviction that child marriage in rural, developing countries is inextricably linked with their cultural backwardness, violence against women need to be examined and addressed in terms of the specific socio-economic and cultural conditions as to why girls, adolescents and young women are forced to live and marry in their young age. This article examines two shorts stories from Indonesia to be analyzed comparatively with another story from Bangladesh to show the limit of mainstream feminist perspectives that often put the blame on minority cultures. The present study reveals that first, child marriages in both countries are largely driven by such factors as poverty, economic dependency, lack of education, and dowry in Bangladeshs case. Secondly, the ways in which authors depict child marriages vary, i.e. it is either perpetuating the violence in child marriage, or critically depicting child marriage as an aberrant patriarchal practice. Taken together, the child brides play their respective role as victor, survivor, or victim.DOI: https://doi.org/10.24071/ijhs.2018.020106
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PROF. KONG JULAN. "A Comparative Study of the Short stories by Chinese Writer Rou Shi “A Slave Mother” and Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi “Sons & Daughters”." DARYAFT 16, no. 01 (June 26, 2024): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.52015/daryaft.v16i01.393.
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By comparing Rou Shi’s and Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi’s short stories, it is surprising to find that these two well-known authors, though living in different countries, have created works with very similar meanings. In revealing sufferings and miseries of women of the underclass, they have uncovered the common social problems brought about by poverty, ignorance, and outmoded conventions and customs. In the semi-feudalist society, women from both countries are all in a very humble position: they are deprived of their own social position, thus becoming lambs to be slaughtered, belongings of their husbands, and victims of poverty and backwardness. In their works, both authors unveiled the miserable and inhumane conditions of women, demonstrated the tragic life of working women of that time, condemned tortures and torments brought to women by the unfair social system, and offered their deep sympathy to poor peasants, especially toiling women. This study underscores the enduring relevance of literature in exposing and critiquing societal inequities, offering poignant insights into the shared struggles of women navigating oppressive systems across different national contexts.
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Mandal, Anil Kumar, and Dr Arjun Kumar. "Socio-Cultural reality of Canadian Women in the fiction of Alice Munro." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 7, no. 6 (2022): 170–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.76.23.
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Throughout this paper I have systematized and studied in critical terms, a range of Alice Munro mainly women-centric short stories, with an in-depth study of their living condition under the traditional social conventions. Being concerned about women Munro in her fiction has recreated the world of Canadian women, with its true picture of the Canadian society, with culture, custom and environment. She has continuously wrote about the invaluable document of human relationship, as well as female experience under social values and expectation. In her work, Munro explores women's role in different situation of life as a young girl, a career women, a lover, wife or mother. In each of these roles Canadian women found a reflection of their selves mirrored in Munro's chronical of women's social history down the decades. She writes about past experiences of her childhood, cultural traits and social structure that she minutely observed in her different age group. Her subjects are rural landscape, lives of girls and women, their coming of age, love, hate, marriage, suffering and stuff of rural life with reference to small town locality. Lake Huron, Otawa Valley and Wowanash County. Munro's strength, as a short story writer, is the range of her portraits of a variety of female characters from childhood to old age. In this way, most of the girls and women of Munro, as the main protagonists, confront, challenges at personal, familial and social level. However, they all are not alike; some are submissive and introvert and feeble while others bold, rebellious and self-indulgent who are real girls and women of Munrovian model, search their original self, and who put aside all their pretentions, show the Canadian society, alternatively, to the world what they, in reality are. Muro is a realistic writer, her character a represent cultural reality of rural Canadianness of her age. Del and Rose are Munrovian iconic characters, with whom she reveals her own childhood, youth and maturity and they have been transfigured in her favorite books Lives of Girls and Women and Beggar Maid intentionally. Protagonists of Dance and Progress are modelled on herself.
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Das, Banani. "Body Image and Identity: A look into select short stories of Bhabendra Nath Saikia." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 8, no. 4 (2023): 178–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.84.29.
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The human body has been theorized in many ways, including the entire notion of the woman as a human creation. It is generally agreed that this concept refers to our perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about our bodies, which influence our behaviour about our bodies. The article examines numerous authors whose individual genealogies meet on the common ground of identity theory and women's lives and is supported by a theoretical framework based on conceptions of identity, body-image and self-image in women and feminist discourse. This paper probes into the concepts of identity in women through the literary canvas of Dr. Bhabendra Nath Saikia and demonstrates the effects of body image and self-image on the development of identity. Of course, an extensive discussion of the short stories of Dr. Saikia is beyond the scope of this paper. The aim of this paper is to analyse the concepts through the two short stories short titled "Dhura Xaap" (ঢোৰা সাপ 1958) and "Sringkhol" (শৃংখল, 1970) by Dr, Bhabendra Nath Saikia. The paper seeks to explore the concepts of self-image, identity and body image through three female characters ‘Chandrika’, ‘Janeki’ and ‘Ambika’.
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Diah Haryanti, Novi, Atiqotul Fitriyah, Syihaabul Hudaa, Aprilia Pitaloka, and Virdika Rizky Utama. "WOMEN'S WORLD IN SHORT STORIES ON DUNIASANTRI.CO: A READING OF SANTRIWATI'S WORKS." Jurnal Lektur Keagamaan 21, no. 1 (June 30, 2023): 59–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.31291/jlka.v21i1.1103.
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ABSTRACT This paper aims to examine the world of women in short stories written by santriwati (female students) on duniasantri.co website, which was the first pioneer of student journalism with the concept of citizen journalism. There are 78% of short stories written by santri (male students) and only 22% of short stories written by santriwati. This gender-based contribution imbalance was appealing to study further. Using qualitative descriptive method to explore the santriwati short stories, this research analyzes five short stories in duniasantri.co written by santriwati. To strengthen the data and analysis, the researcher also conducted interviews with the santriwati authors. The study found that there were various themes such as matchmaking and marriage in pesantren, the search for identity, the longing for Ramadan and Lailatul Qadar, and patriarchy culture. These themes indicate that education in Islamic boarding schools produces female students with heterogeneous thinking. Therefore, it can be concluded that the world of women is not seen as uniform by santriwati. Keyword: duniasantri.co, Pesantren, Santriwati, Women's World. ABSTRAK Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji dunia perempuan dalam cerpen-cerpen yang ditulis santriwati di website Duniasantri.co yang merupakan pelopor jurnalisme santri pertama berkonsep citizen journalism. Terdapat 78% cerpen ditulis oleh santri dan hanya 22% cerpen ditulis oleh santriwati. Ketimpangan komposisi tersebut menjadi daya tarik untuk melihat bagaimana kisah-kisah yang diproduksi oleh santriwati. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskrispi kualitatif dengan objek kajian cerpen-cerpen karya santriwati di duniasantri.co. Untuk memperkuat data dan analisis, peneliti juga melakukan wawancara dengan para penulis santriwati. Berdasarkan hasil analisis terhadap lima cerpen yang ditulis oleh santriwati di duniasantri.co memperlihatkan karakteristik tema yang beragam seperti perjodohan dan pernikahan di pesantren, pencarian identitas para santriwati di pesantren, kerinduan terhadap bulan Ramadan dan Lailatul Qadar, serta budaya patriarki yang masih membelenggu perempuan. Tema-tema tersebut memperlihatkan, pendidikan di pesantren menghasilkan santriwati dengan pemikiran beragam (heterogen). Dengan demikian dapat disimpulkan dunia perempuan tidak dilihat seragam oleh santriwati. Kata Kunci: Dunia Perempuan, duniasantri.co, Santriwati, Sastra Pesantren.
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Gaidash, Anna, and Monika Denk. "“The New Woman” In Short Prose by Olga Kobylanska and Edith Wharton." Studia Philologica, no. 22 (2024): 243–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2412-2491.2024.2217.
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The notion of the “new woman”, which emerged as a feminist ideal in Western consciousness during the late 19th century, resonates throughout both European and US-American literature. The main character in Olga Kobylanska’s novella “Eine Unzivilisierte” (1898) embodies the theme of female liberation in Ukrainian literature of the era. Similarly, the central female figures in Edith Wharton’s short stories, “The Other Two” (1902) and “The Mission of Jane” (1904), highlight the heightened role of women within the patriarchal society of the United States during that period. Applying close reading, block method and typological approach for the study of diachronic aspects of literary relationships the article analyzes the literary embodiment of the concept of “new woman” in short prose of Ukrainian and US-American women authors. In “Eine Unzivilisierte”, the protagonist Paraska actively opposes marrying a man chosen by others and is decisive in her own choice of partners; she does not feel any obligation to be a typical “housewife”, or to correspond to the typical picture of a woman, with all the activity connoted as typically “feminine”. Independent of her husband, the “new woman” at the turn of the centuries, Paraska proudly appeals to her right and ability to find another partner at any given moment. In contrast to Kobylanska’s novella Wharton’s short stories demonstrate rather submissive behavior of their central female characters, both named Alice. Maternity enables both Alices to subvert the established hierarchy achieving some freedom of “new woman”. In Kobylanska’s novella, the rural setting contrasts with the urban backdrop of Edith Wharton’s short stories, symbolizing the societal constraints faced by the “new woman”.
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Rensen, Marleen. "New Female Role Models from Around the World: Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls." European Journal of Life Writing 10 (December 6, 2021): BB135—BB154. http://dx.doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.10.38167.
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Biographies for children have always been popular among young readers, but they are becoming an increasingly important part of children’s literature in the twenty-first century. Most prominent are the collections offering short life-sketches of historical and contemporary figures who can serve as positive role models for young readers from diverse backgrounds. This article discusses the international bestseller Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women (2016) from a feminist, transnational perspective. Focusing on the authors’ narrative strategies, it investigates how tropes of agency are used to make aware of women’s struggles and successes across time and space. Further, it examines how girls are actively encouraged to continue these legacies. Ultimately, the analysis shows that Goodnight Stories establishes connections between women from diverse countries and continents, and at the same time reveals cross-cultural differences in how the book has been received in different corners of the world.
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Kortas, Cyrine. "A Feminist Dialogic Reading of the New Woman: Love, Female Desire, and Family in The Virgin and the Gypsy by D. H. Lawrence and in The Tragedy of Demetrio by Hanna Mina." International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies 3, no. 4 (August 3, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.47631/ijecls.v3i4.485.
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This paper explores the depiction of female characters as New Women in a comparative analysis of two selected short stories by two seemingly anti-feminist authors; D. H. Lawrence in England and Hanna Mina in Syria. I argue that these short stories signal the need for a new perspective, analyzing how these two authors challenged the conventional fictional treatment of womanhood and created complex female heroines struggling against restrictive social roles and values. Examining these selected narratives, “The Virgin and the Gypsy” by D. H. Lawrence and in “The Tragedy of Demetrio” by Hanna Mina, sets forth an unexpected area of comparison between English and Arabic literature with a specific interest in the construction of New Woman identity at the turn of the century, namely the fragmented and complex presentations of the heroines’ inner struggle between the traditional female roles and their aspirations for a freer, more fluid identity. A close reading will, therefore, bring out certain similarities in terms of themes and style that call for a Bakhtinian insight into dialogism to account for the fragmented character of the New Woman in both texts.
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Jackson, Elizabeth. "Gender and social class in India: Muslim perspectives in the fiction of Attia Hosain and Shama Futehally." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53, no. 1 (May 11, 2016): 124–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989416632373.
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This article investigates representations of gender and class inequality in Attia Hosain’s classic novel Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961) and her short story collection Phoenix Fled and Other Stories (1953). It compares her work with that of Shama Futehally, another elite Muslim Indian woman writing in English several decades later. Born 40 years after Attia Hosain, the postcolonial world of Shama Futehally is very different, but the issues she explores in her fiction are remarkably similar: social and economic inequality, exploitation of the poor, and the ambiguous position of women privileged by their social class and disempowered by their gender. Both authors write carefully crafted realist fiction focusing predominantly on the experiences and perspectives of female characters. Shama Futehally’s novel Tara Lane (1993), like Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column, is a coming-of-age novel whose protagonist is a young Muslim woman in an affluent family, coming to terms with the uneasy combination of class privilege, gender disadvantage, and a strong social conscience. Both authors explore the perspectives of working-class Indian women in their short stories, emphasizing their vulnerability to exploitation (including sexual exploitation), as well as the deeply problematic nature of “noblesse oblige”. Aware of the interconnections between gender and class inequality, Attia Hosain and Shama Futehally have written powerful fictional works which effectively dramatize not only the complex relationship between gender and social class hierarchies, but also the ways in which all privilege is predicated on inequality.
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Nouri, Azadeh, and Fatemeh Aziz Mohammadi. "A Study of Carter’s Wolf_Alice Based on Showalter’s Gynocriticism." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 48 (February 2015): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.48.1.
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One of the most radical and stylish fiction authors of the 20th century, Angela Carter, expresses her views of feminism through her various novels and fairy tales. Carter began experimenting with writing fairy tales in 1970, which coincided with the period of second wave feminism in the Unites States. The majority of Angela Carter’s work revolve around a specific type of feminism, radical libertarian feminism and her critique of the patriarchal role that have been placed on women. In this article, the main concentrate is on heroine’s internalized consciousness which echoes in their behavior. All of the female protagonists in carter’s short stories; such as The Company of Wolves, and Werewolf and mainly in Wolf_Alice have similar characteristics with different conditions, in which they are represented in a very negative light with less than ideal roles. In these stories, the protagonist is a young girl who has many conflicts with love and desire. Carter attempts to encourage women to do something about this degrading representation.
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Nan, Ioana Gabriela. "Girlhood and Girl Friendship in the Narratives of Bjørg Vik and Karin Sveen." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 68, no. 2 (June 25, 2023): 135–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2023.2.08.
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"Girlhood and Girl Friendship in the Narratives of Bjørg Vik and Karin Sveen. The article is an account of girls growing up, based on two of Bjørg Vik’s short stories and a novel by Karin Sveen. After introducing the notion of female friendship and girlhood, it places the two authors against the background of Norwegian female authors writing about women and adolescent girls. It goes on to point out the importance of the environment for the girl friendships in the chosen works, and the power hierarchies based on looks that determine the girls’ allegiances. Finally, it comments on the girls’ shifting beliefs in freedom and solidarity as they grow older. Keywords: women’s literature, female friendship, girlhood, coming-of-age narrative, solidarity"
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V, Nisha. "The Marginalized People from the Perspective Su Venugopal." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-19 (December 10, 2022): 315–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt224s1947.
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After the nineties, the theory of postmodernism became hotly talked about in the artistic and literary contexts of Tamil. In the marginal counter-narratives posed by this theory, the marginal concepts provided many new openings. Thus, the views and records of marginalized people who were subjected to neglect and oppression gained a new lease on life. There are also contributions from many authors behind this. In this Su Venugopal is remarkable. In all his stories, humanity is at the core of it. His voice for the marginalized sections of the downtrodden is silently recorded in the stories, with a sharply critical tone towards the prevailing dominant society. Thus, this article examines Su Venugopal's fictions about agricultural labourers, women, the physically challenged, and transgenders living in the marginalized state away from the core. Su Venugopal is a storyteller with a realist background in a straightforward narrative. There are more than five volumes of his short stories and this article is the subject of his research. This article moves on to the hypothesis that Su Venugopal's stories explain marginalized people and their lives from within their own domain. The physical and mental distress and crowded acts of relationships of marginalized people who yearn for support, comfort, and warmth become central to Su Venugopal's stories.
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Nijhawan, Shobna. "Gendered lives in vernacular fiction: Redefining family in Hindi short stories of the early 1940s." Indian Economic & Social History Review 56, no. 1 (January 2019): 33–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019464618817368.
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This article is embedded in discourses surrounding the new mobility of people as well as scientific, technological and socio-cultural changes in a late-colonial setting. It investigates how a number of prominent and less-known male authors from the centre and margins of the twentieth-century Hindi literary canon, including Rishabhcharan Jain, Shriyut ‘Arun’ and Durgadas Bhaskar, depict unconventional family constellations and human relationships that challenge normative conceptions of family, fatherhood, conjugality and blood bonds as well as gender roles and responsibilities. The short stories under investigation suggest that human relationships require constant negotiation and investigation of the meaning of kinship, caste, class and the human. In the process, we encounter adulterous husbands, strong wives and nurturing fathers’ life struggles and tribulations. These short stories centre on husband–wife, man–mistress, wife–mistress and father–son relationships. Their male protagonists are authoritative towards their wives, caring towards their mistresses and nurturing towards children. At times, their self-sacrifice goes as far as to complete self-annihilation for the sake of the offspring, and, at other times, they lead double lives. Mothers are absent in these short stories. Instead, male protagonists claim parenthood and are ready to go as far as to abduct infants in order to perform fatherhood. I argue that parenting constellations and conjugality became negotiable for a number of factors that are addressed in my selection of Hindi short stories: (a) parenthood was not contingent upon biology (as stories on adoption and abduction suggest), (b) contraception was readily available to women and men (as promoted in periodicals of the time) and in the process also changing attitudes towards sexuality and conjugality, (c) abortion emerged as a medical option to undo a pregnancy emerging from an illicit love affair and (d) the new mobility enabled people to get around easily and frequently and even lead double lives. In addressing these factors, fiction published and circulated in periodicals offered novel imaginative and innovative spaces for the negotiation of family models once projected as normative in social reformist and nationalist discourses.
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Mittal, Bina. "Exploring the Immigrant Experience through Theatre: Uma Parameswaran’s Rootless but Green are the Boulevard Trees." Canadian Theatre Review 94 (March 1998): 32–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.94.008.
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Uma Parameswaran was born in Madras, India. She studied in Jabalpur and Nagpur, India, and received her PhD from Michigan State University. Today, she is a Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg and is involved in the Indo-Canadian and Women’s communities in Winnipeg. More specifically, her community involvement includes organizing the first series of Indian classical dance instruction (1978–81) and producing a weekly television show (1979-92). She has also participated on various boards and advisory panels, including the Immigrant Women’s Association of Manitoba, the Margaret Laurence Chair of Women Studies and she Chaired a three-year project on Women Focused Research. At present, Parameswaran is involved with the National Council of The Writers’ Union of Canada. Her publications include selections from many genres, including critical essays which explore the work of Salman Rushdie and her own creative contributions such as poetry, short stories, dance-dramas, and the play under study, Rootless but Green are the Boulevard Trees (first published in 1985 in Toronto South Asian Review, Volume 4:1, and subsequently republished as a book in 1987).
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Hardy, Zoé. "Short stories of expanded lives: The augmented human in Edith Nesbit’s ‘The Five Senses’, Mary E. Braddon’s ‘Good Lady Ducayne’ and Clotilde Graves’s ‘Lady Clanbevan’s Baby’." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 12, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): 43–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00048_1.
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The ability for short fiction to address the issue of expansion might strike as a paradox. Yet at the turn of the nineteenth century, many fictional tales depicting augmented men or women were published in the form of short stories, dealing each in their own way with various scientific interventions altering, for better or worse, the health condition of their protagonists. Authors such as Edith Nesbit, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Clotilde Graves ‐ to name but a few ‐ experimented with the limits of human and textual bodies alike. This intersection will be examined in three of these writers’ narratives: ‘The Five Senses’ (1909) by Nesbit, ‘Good Lady Ducayne’ (1896) by Braddon and ‘Lady Clanbevan’s Baby’ (1915) by Graves. As this article argues, brevity creates a favourable environment for a poetic of expansion to emerge in these texts, thus allowing for the development of imaginative and meaningful representations of bodily and intellectual improvement. To support this claim, I will posit that suggestion and selection, two by-products of the economy of signs which characterizes short literary forms, provided creative ways for the authors to shape and deliver augmented texts.
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Marques, Bruno, Grace Ladeira Garbaccio, and Jefferson Carús Guedes. "QUEENS OF HOPE AND DEVOTION." Revista da Faculdade Mineira de Direito 25, no. 50 (May 1, 2023): 81–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/p.2318-7999.2022v25n50p81-96.
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In modern societies, it is widespread to observe that women tend to be paid less than men. Academically, there are still authors like Emilie Durkheim who supported a conservative view of women's positions in society. According to them, the issue of gender discrimination could be justified by the less dedication of women to work. Their devotions would tend not to be integral like those of the men. Then, the issue of gender discrimination raises various discussions of either the cultural or values arguments. This research, however, proposes to demonstrate that any such justification for gender segregation would have no empirical evidence in the stories of queens' governments. Thus, we start from the primary studies on the theme of segregation and power to demonstrate that the authors might agree that discrimination would incorporate shared values, and which would then be reflected in further empirical cases. Consequently, through the five ethnographic and bibliographic studies, it is shown that in the short periods of history in which women have taken power, they not only have exercised it better than men but instead have exercised them greatly, which also put further segregation justifications of segregation of gender into questionable perspectives.
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Patiño Mejía, Ana Mercedes. "Las cuentistas de hoy en la La Guajira, San Andrés y Providencia y Chocó." Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, no. 21 (November 5, 2013): 149–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.17418.
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Este ensayo reseña brevemente la presencia del género cuento que en la actualidad cultivan las mujeres en La Guajira, en San Andrés y Providencia y en El Chocó. Sugiere, así mismo, el nombre de tres narradoras que merecen la atención de lectores dentro y fuera de sus regiones y dentro y fuera del país: Lolia Pomare, Vicenta Siosi y Estercilia Simanca. Descriptores: cuento, narradoras, Guajira, San Andres y Providencia, Chocó, Lolia Pomare, Vicenta Siosi, Estercilia Simanca, Wayuu, Creole. Abstract: This essay briefly reviews the current short stories written by women in the geographical areas of La Guajira, San Andrés y Providencia, and El Chocó. It also suggests the names of three short story female authors that deserve attention from readers inside and outside of their regions, and inside and outside of Colombia: Lolia Pomare, Vicenta Siosi and Estercilia Simanca. Key words: short story, Female narrators, Guajira, San Andrés y Providencia, Chocó, Lolia Pomare, Vicenta Siosi, Estercilia Simanca, Wayuu, creole.
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Üçler, Fatma. "Psikiyatrik Vakalardan Esinlenen Edebi Eserlerde Kadın Karakterler Üzerine Bir İnceleme / An Investigation on Female Characters in Literary Works Inspired by Psychiatric Cases." Journal of History Culture and Art Research 7, no. 5 (December 31, 2018): 687. http://dx.doi.org/10.7596/taksad.v7i5.1889.
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<p><strong>Abstract </strong></p><p>The aim of this study is to evaluate the text of psychiatric cases from a literary perspective. Based on the stories and therapies of her patients, Gülseren Budayıcıoğlu who is a psychiatrist presents them to the reader in her short stories and novel fictions. We will subject the works based on female characters to literary analysis. The author's first work, Madalyonun İçi, consists of short stories. The second work, Günahın Üç Rengi, basically contains three main stories. His third work, Hayata Dön, despite being a novel, displays cases of patients. In these works, the author reveals his identity as a doctor and the perception of reality is always open. The fourth work, Kral Kaybederse, is a technical novel fiction. In every work, woman is in the foreground. In her works, the effects of the damage on the psychology of the women and, as a psychiatrist, the authors’ approach to the problems and his guidance to the women on how to deal with these problems are included.</p><p><strong>Öz </strong></p><p>Bu çalışma, edebiyatı psikanalitik açıdan değerlendirmek yerine; psikiyatrik vakalardan oluşan metni, edebî açıdan değerlendirmek amacındadır. Psikiyatrist Dr. Gülseren Budayıcıoğlu, hastalarının hikâyelerinden ve terapilerinden yola çıkarak öykü ve roman kurmacası içinde bunları okuyucuya sunmaktadır. Eserleri, kadın karakterlerini esas alarak edebî çözümlemeye tabi tutacağız. Yazarın ilk eseri Madalyonun İçi, kısa kısa öykülerden oluşur. İkinci eser Günahın Üç Rengi, temelde üç esas öykü barındırır. Üçüncü eseri Hayata Dön, romandır yine de içinde, kısa hasta vakaları yer alır. Bu eserlerde yazar, Doktor kimliğini açık eder, gerçeklik algısı daima açıktır. Dördüncü eser Kral Kaybederse’de teknik roman kurgusu oluşmuştur. Her eserde ön planda olan kadındır. Eserlerdeki kadınların aldığı hasarların psikolojilerine nasıl etki ettiği, yazarın psikiyatr olarak sorunlara yaklaşımı ve kadınlara, bu sorunlarla nasıl baş edebilecekleri konusunda yol göstericiliğini içerir.</p>
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Pearlman, Karen. "Distributed Authorship." Feminist Media Histories 9, no. 2 (2023): 87–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2023.9.2.87.
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A general misapprehension of what filmmakers do and how films are made has obscured the creative and cognitive complexity of the work women have been doing in film for over one hundred years. Using clips from the multi-award-winning short documentary I Want to Make a Film about Women (Pearlman et al. 2020), the video essay Distributed Authorship: An et al. Proposal of Creative Practice, Cognition, and Feminist Film Histories argues that filmmaking is an instance of “distributed cognition” and offers a provocation about the mythologizing of film authors. It then proposes a small, very small, but significant, very significant, adjustment to the stories we tell about filmmakers. I call this adjustment “et al.” and suggest that these five characters and a space are shorthand for an urgently needed change to understandings of collaboration, creativity, and cognition.
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Pham, Thuy Giang. "Conceptual Metaphor “WOMEN ARE ANIMALS” In 20th-century Vietnamese Literature." ICTE Conference Proceedings 3 (January 6, 2023): 26–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.54855/ictep.2333.
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From the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics, the paper analyzes the conceptual metaphor WOMEN ARE ANIMALS in 20th-century Vietnamese literary works. The theoretical framework for this study includes the Conceptual Metaphor Theory of Lakoff and Johnson (1980), the Great Chain of Being model of Lakoff and Turner (1989), and the Metaphor Identification Procedure of Pragglejaz Group (2007). Through a survey of 50 short stories and novels written by famous Vietnamese authors, 6 low-level metaphors as well as the mapping mechanism from the source domain to the target domain, is discovered and explained. The findings reveal that women are mainly portrayed as wild animals, livestock, pets, or birds. Metaphorical linguistic expressions, then, convey a biased view towards the low and inferior role and position of women in the family and society. Negative ideological values in the representation of women are explored to show that women are considered to be small, weak, dependent on men, and serve as their recreation. Vietnamese people's thinking and cultural characteristics are also reflected in this metaphor.
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Chowdhury, Mohammad Shahidul Islam. "The Restoration of Feminist Subjectivity in Henrik Ibsen and Rabindranath Tagore." Crossings: A Journal of English Studies 3, no. 1 (December 1, 2011): 99–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.59817/cjes.v3i1.381.
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Henrik Ibsen (i828-1906) focuses, among other issues, on the individuality in his play A Doll’s House. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), in some of his short stories, depicts the struggle by women to assert their individuality in the patriarchal social structure of the Indian subcontinent. Ibsen and Tagore are from different cultures, but still they have much in common regarding feminist subjectivity. They reveal the anguish of the women of their times and their treatment by the elements of the society. What unites these two writers is that women in society not only become the victims: of oppression but also find a way out of that oppression, and try to establish themselves as individuals. Such struggle attributes universality to the subject-matter in the writings of these two authors. This paper aims at finding the thread that binds together the writings of Ibsen and Tagore from the feminist point of view, and how their female characters fight to assert their individuality in an adverse environment.
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Cardone, Resha. "The silent treatment: Alejandra Basualto´s a esthetic of censorship." Revista Boletín Redipe 9, no. 10 (October 2, 2020): 126–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.36260/rbr.v9i10.1093.
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Alejandra Basualto is a little studied yet significant Chilean prose writer and poet whose first short story collection, La mujer de yeso (1988), exemplifies the redefinition of the woman writer that occurred in many female- authored fiction texts published during the Pinochet regime. Exemplifying the aesthetic of censorship and silence characterizing her entire short story collection, analyses in this article of “La espera” and “1954” reveal how Basualto undermines the repressive hierarchies defining Chilean politics of the dictatorship era as well as the national literary establishment through what I call her aesthetic of silence and censorship. The art of censorship recalls the context of dictatorial repression Basualto confronts in this
collection, while the aesthetic of silence points to the dialogue with international feminist thought perceptible in the compilation. In these two short stories, creative women protagonists challenge institutional power structures by assuming the feminized positions of vulnerability and silence. Basualto incorporates literary strategies like metaphors, mythical allusions, and ellipses to create an intricate textual dynamic representing repressive military tactics like censorship and disappearing dissidents. A story inscribed on a tortured and repressed female body longing to create, an extended metaphor for the Chilean nation and its writers, “La espera” showcases artists’ frustrated attempts to create during the regime while representing the psychological despair of Chileans suffering due to the “disappearance” of their loved ones. The focus on women and writing in “1954” depicts women authors’ need to identify female literary models and to imagine belonging to same-sex writers’ communities to succeed as authors despite the male-dominant literary establishment, traditional gender roles, and military and self-censorship.
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Aisha Haleem. "Trauma in Prostitution: An Analysis of Select Short Stories of Sadat Hasan Manto and Kamala Surayya Das." Creative Saplings 2, no. 03 (June 26, 2023): 39–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.03.317.
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Prostitutes encountered and continue to experience a great deal of trauma related to their existence and profession—which is not even considered or recognised by society, especially in South Asian countries, even after the legalisation of prostitution—sex workers have no respect and place in society, and hardly any writer or radical thinkers have written about them. In the late 1990s, major figures in the movement for sex workers' rights openly questioned the queer theorists' silence on the matter of prostitution and sex work. Not much has been done to emphasise the expressly queer side of sex work, despite efforts made by sex workers to "come out of the closet" and engage with the larger queer theoretical community. The absence of any discussion of how sex functions in queer theory refutes the logical inference suggesting that it has no relevance to this area of research. Prostitution can also be referred to as queer profession because their lives are full of traumatic experiences. Only a small number of authors from South Asian nations have written or spoken about prostitution. Among them are Sadat Hasan Manto and Kamala Surayya Das, whose short stories “Insult” (Hatak), “The Hundred Candle Power Bulb”, “A Doll for a Child Prostitute,” and “Padmavati The Harlot” accurately, surreally, and impartially depict the life, surroundings, and struggle of sex workers. The most extended and most in-depth story in her collection of short stories, "A Doll for the Kid Prostitute," features an inspector sahib who has had enough of women and demands a fresh child recruit, Rukmani. The inspector pulled her dress and transformed her into a prostitute without even considering her age; the sentence, which solely described the inspector's conduct, was harsh. This made their first encounter painful. With this awful first encounter, Das creates a world of unrestrained carnality in which innocence must perish. The short novella emphasises the issue of prostitution and how it affects women. The stories of individuals like Sita, Meera, Laxmibai, her son, Saraswati, Krishna, etc. are very well portrayed, and they are all intriguing. Das regularly uses the dramatic approach and writes realistic stories. She expresses herself artistically primarily through discourse. Manto’s story "A Hundred Candle-Power Bulb" demonstrates how prostitution and division coexist because pimps are prepared to exchange their most important resource: prostitutes, even in the midst of riots between various ethnic groups.
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Drewniak, Dagmara. "Quo Vadis Polish-Canadian Writing? Reflections on Home, Language, Writing, and Memory in Recent Texts By Canadian Writers of Polish Origins." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 55, s2 (December 1, 2020): 317–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/stap-2020-0016.
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Abstract The aim of this paper is to look at the recent publications by writers of Polish extraction living in Canada and writing in English in order to examine these texts in the context of their treatment of the concept of home, attitude to mother tongue and the usage of English, as well as the authors’ involvement in shaping the Canadian literary scene. The analysis will concentrate on selected texts published after 2014 to delineate the latest tendencies in Polish-Canadian writing. The discussion will include life writing genres such as memoirs, short stories, and novels. Since these writers have undertaken themes of (up)rootedness, identity, and memory and they have touched upon the creative redefinition of the figure of home, these aspects will also be examined from a theoretical perspective in the introductory part of the article. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek through his concept of “in-between peripherality” (2010: 87) proposes to view Central and Eastern European literature as both peripheral and in-between its “own national cultural self-referentiality and the cultural influence and primacy of the major Western cultures” (2010: 87). Moreover, as diasporic studies are inspired by the search for transcultural, dynamic exchanges and hybridity (Agnew 2005), the analysis will also include discussions on hybridity understood as a transgression of borders, both literary and genealogical as well as thematic. That is why, the classic notion of hybridity known widely in postcolonial studies, is here understood, according to Moslund (2010), as having horizontal and vertical orientations, where the former designates transgression of borders and space and the latter is connected to the movement across time. This approach is particularly interesting in the context of Polish-Canadian migrant and diasporic literature as, according to Pieterse (2001), hybridity understood as movement and translocation can offer new perspectives on migrant literatures in multi-and transcultural worlds.