Culture and gender questions in sarah joseph’s othappuKarthika Shibu
Marghalitha, the protagonist flouts all social inscripts and logic and seeks sexual consummation through her relationship with Fr. Roy Francis Kareekkan. The social binary of good / bad, divine / beastial, strong / weak, man / woman is posived here when these two characters break the social inscripts embedded in their respective chosen fields and construct revised norms. While Fr. Roy is a typical illustration of the patriarchal norm of ‘use and throw’ construct. Marghalitha seems to agree with Beauvoir’s statement “one is not born a woman, rather one becomes a woman”. When abandoned with an adopted child and a child in her womb she rewrites her ‘feminine’ construct and like a phoenix bird rises from the ashes of social, emotional and psychological degradation to become the empowered liberal woman.
Literary Theories: A Sampling of Literary LensesJivanee Abril
Literary Theories: A Sampling of Literary Lenses
This is merely an introduction to theory so I am just going to provide you with a few of the more common schools of criticism. Remember most of these theories are quite detailed so this is just a very brief overview of their main ideas and some theories have been combined to keep things simple.
Gender criticism is an extension of feminist literary criticism, focusing not just on women but on the construction of gender and sexuality, especially LGBTQ issues, which gives rise to queer theory.
Culture and gender questions in sarah joseph’s othappuKarthika Shibu
Marghalitha, the protagonist flouts all social inscripts and logic and seeks sexual consummation through her relationship with Fr. Roy Francis Kareekkan. The social binary of good / bad, divine / beastial, strong / weak, man / woman is posived here when these two characters break the social inscripts embedded in their respective chosen fields and construct revised norms. While Fr. Roy is a typical illustration of the patriarchal norm of ‘use and throw’ construct. Marghalitha seems to agree with Beauvoir’s statement “one is not born a woman, rather one becomes a woman”. When abandoned with an adopted child and a child in her womb she rewrites her ‘feminine’ construct and like a phoenix bird rises from the ashes of social, emotional and psychological degradation to become the empowered liberal woman.
Literary Theories: A Sampling of Literary LensesJivanee Abril
Literary Theories: A Sampling of Literary Lenses
This is merely an introduction to theory so I am just going to provide you with a few of the more common schools of criticism. Remember most of these theories are quite detailed so this is just a very brief overview of their main ideas and some theories have been combined to keep things simple.
Gender criticism is an extension of feminist literary criticism, focusing not just on women but on the construction of gender and sexuality, especially LGBTQ issues, which gives rise to queer theory.
A Brief introduction about Feminist literary Criticism- It's History, Criticism as literature and the the role of Female writer and it's Creations-Creative Writings and comparison.
Literary criticism on Gender and Sexuality. The slides contain the most prominent voices in literary gender and sexual criticism as pointed out by the Norton Anthology of Literary Criticism
A Brief introduction about Feminist literary Criticism- It's History, Criticism as literature and the the role of Female writer and it's Creations-Creative Writings and comparison.
Literary criticism on Gender and Sexuality. The slides contain the most prominent voices in literary gender and sexual criticism as pointed out by the Norton Anthology of Literary Criticism
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Feminism as human rights criticism
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Text can criticize or affirm patriarchal ideology
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Sometimes a text does both
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Traditional gender roles
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Objectification of women
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Sex vs gender
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“Cult of True Womanhood”
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Exceptions to these rules based on race and class