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A Postcolonial Analysis: The Relationality of Gender and Politics before and during the Biafran War in Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
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Feminist Postcolonial Theory
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- Language: English
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Copyright year: 2003
- Audience: College/higher education;
- Main content: 754
- Keywords: Literary Studies
- Published: July 8, 2003
- ISBN: 9781474470254
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Postcolonial Feminist Theory: An Overview
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Female marginalisation is a major theme in The Color Purple, with Celie’s emancipation from repressive male patriarchy being the culmination of the plot. In The Color Purple there is physical as well as psychological violence and the female characters are struggling with both gender and racial oppression. When discussing the way narrative method and perspective are used within the novel to address these themes, it is useful to make comparisons and contrasts with a different text. Themes like gender relations, gender oppression, colonial subordination and identity seem to be salient in the story. The novel can be seen as feminist as well as postcolonial, and postcolonial feminist criticism. The female protagonist is doubly oppressed, that is, both subordinated as women and as colonial objects. The paper focuses how patriarchal and colonial oppressions are expressed in the novel. The female characters in Alice’s The Color Purple show their destiny in relation to God, the coloured woman’s position in relation to man, society, white people, financial freedom, sexual freedom, and identity. The main theme of the book is triumph of good over evil that is the first indication of oppression followed by liberation. Key words: gender, post colonial, racial oppression
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Prior to the emergence of rightist literary texts by black female writers, African American Literature has primarily been male in recounting the practice of slavery and its antiquity of belittlement. According to the contrivance of societal existence, men are contemplated as the authoritative component of the macrocosm while the women are considered to be debilitated and vulnerable. As late as one of them cognizes her true worth, erects as inimical to the exploitation and promulgates her individuality as a dynamic and potential woman, Alice Walker " s women are obligated to sustain under the ascendancy of their monarchs. Walker encourages the women to pursue a trail of selfhood to liberate themselves from the venomous and malign influence of patriarchy and sexism without restraining herself by delineating the enduring agony of African-American women. Through the nurturing bond of sisterhood with Nettie, stepdaughter Sophia and close friend Shug Avery, Celie, the leading light in Alice Walker " s The Color Purple, amends her stature from a molested and maltreated slave woman to an unshackled soul who crosses the corporeal, aesthetic and pecuniary limitations and attains the unfettered liberation and realizes to predicate her body. In the ablaze of her excruciating strive for existence concerning feminist criticism, the article intends to contextualize Celie " s fight as an infant, adolescent and matured woman apropos molestation, sexism, racism, subjugation by male authoritative coercion, narrative command and a robust bond between women in the context of The Color Purple.
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The article examines how the protagonist, Celie's journey towards emancipation is portrayed in the novel The Color Purple. Alice Walker fictionalizes the journey of Celie on the lines of the genre of Bildungsroman. It depicts how she overcomes all the patriarchal oppression and evolves as a mature woman at the end. Alice Walker, in her epistolary novel, discusses the problems encountered by black women on their road to self-love and independence. By applying the descriptive qualitative approach, the article uses the concept of womanism. To delineate how the new black woman is gradually formed to great awakening and emancipation. Walker expands this novel as a tool to give voice to the oppressed black woman and constructs the way for them to get empowered and emancipated. The entire narrative focuses on the life of Celie, who is sexually abused, and how she struggles to achieve a sense of self-hood. The letters, written to God by Celie, reflect that there is a ray of hope for independence. The semi-biographical story evokes pity in the readers and the tale also records the endurance of Celie through all the difficulties and how she emerges as a victorious model. The female bonding and sisterhood she gets from Nettie, Sofia, and Shug Avery makes Celie break from male domination and begins to establish fruitful networking among the female relationship.
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My aim through this article is to propagate that Alice Walker shows in her novel that racism informs all aspects of black life in the South. As Walker shows, many females did not finish school, and were instead married away at early ages. Walker also showed the troublesome life of many black southern women in the novel. This paper is an endeavour to put Walker in appropriate viewpoint as a feminist and review her novel in the light of essential feminism. As a communal movement, feminism thinks on doing away with gender variation and supporting women's rights, happiness and subject in the society. Alice Walker has written by and large about female characters and no question of most of her novels move around women characters. In her very first novel she has tried to show the inner Psyche of Celie. Alice Walker's writings present a wide range of her craft and concern. It paves an obvious way and assesses the degree of her root educes in the issues such as social activism, cultural depiction, of the self.
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The emergence of the cult of true womanhood in the early 20th century had triggered the movement called Black Madonna Movement, which caused a great number of black women to embrace the values of true womanhood. Alice Walker is one of many woman authors who write about black womanhood. The article finds that in the setting of early 20th century, Alice Walker portrays black women aligning with the values of true womanhood. Walker portrays Celie as the product of Black Madonna Movement thus making her the idealized woman among her Black peers. However, she also represents the image of 'empowered' women in other characters, defying the 'code' of true womanhood as believed by the society at that time.
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Laughing With the Medusas: Feminist Politics in the Age of Media Transformation
In her 1976 essay "The Laugh of the Medusa," Hélène Cixous urges women to claim power by telling their own stories and letting laughter "exude from all our mouths." This dissertation explores how the field of comedy has served as a space for women to enact Cixous's vision of a "laughing Medusa"-- one who subverts patriarchal norms through the liberating force of feminist laughter. The analysis presented in my dissertation traces twin histories: the representation of feminist politics in popular media from the 1970s to the present, and the transformation of media forms and audience engagement during the transition from analog to digital cultures.
Focusing on discrete media forms, I contextualize the political, economic, and cultural forces that have shaped women’s contributions to cultural production and analyze narratives of women's reproductive health, embodied precarity, and sexual agency. Viewing meditated live performances, sitcoms, and social media text and images as "technologies of gender," I attend to dynamics of performance and spectatorship where feminist politics unfold with joyous, mirthful affectivity. Using methods of intersectional feminist analysis, I analyze what this affectivity means for feminist discourse more broadly, and evaluate the ways that affective politics can sustain audiences and individuals, as well as cohere counter-publics. This dissertation contributes to scholarship in feminist media studies as well as adjacent fields of affect and performance, arguing that feminists and affect theorists alike must recognize the full range of affects and emotions in our analysis of how the political is embedded in popular media. Ultimately, this dissertation celebrates the power of feminist laughter to subvert patriarchal norms, as envisioned by Cixous, and demonstrates how women have leveraged the liberating potential of comedy to reclaim their narratives and assert agency in the face of systemic oppression.
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