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Multicultural criticism and the problem of critical uniformity: A reading of Gloria Naylor's "Linden Hills"
Title
Multicultural criticism and the problem of critical uniformity: A reading of Gloria Naylor's "Linden Hills".
Creator
Lombard, Cathy Eunice., Florida Atlantic University, Martin, Thomas L.
Abstract/Description
Much of postcolonial and feminist criticisms reflect on how the oppressor-oppressed relationship of the past affects the present. However, possible-worlds theory expands these critical borders and respects the differences existing between textual world and actual world, supplying readers with the interpretive power to recognize that every past and present is complete with "possibilities" not yet explored. The fantastical elements of Gloria Naylor's narrative worlds complement the overall...
Show moreMuch of postcolonial and feminist criticisms reflect on how the oppressor-oppressed relationship of the past affects the present. However, possible-worlds theory expands these critical borders and respects the differences existing between textual world and actual world, supplying readers with the interpretive power to recognize that every past and present is complete with "possibilities" not yet explored. The fantastical elements of Gloria Naylor's narrative worlds complement the overall fiction. Through three conflicting narrative frames, she shows characters negotiating their assigned space in the inverted world of Linden Hills, not a mimetic representation exactly but reminiscent of Dante and Poe and compelling on its own. Forcing the reader to reevaluate settled assumptions about the actual world, in Linden Hills, Naylor presents the generational re-spawning, and ultimately the breaking, of patriarchy concentrated in the figure of Luther Nedeed.
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Date Issued
2002
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12885
Subject Headings
Naylor, Gloria--Linden Hills, African Americans in literature, Feminist literary criticism, Possibility in literature
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Reclaiming the Goddess: Contemporary American Women Writers' Negotiation of Religious Patriarchy
Title
Reclaiming the Goddess: Contemporary American Women Writers' Negotiation of Religious Patriarchy.
Creator
Dowbnia, Renee, Xu, Wenying, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
Ecofeminist theory exposes the androcentric monopoly of meaning-making and its resulting oppression of women, people of color, and the earth. Because women have been marginalized in historical and religious discourses, these theorists emphasize the need for women to develop an alternative, inclusive worldview that rejects binary, hierarchical thought. Like feminist theorists, Contemporary American women writers have also tackled the patriarchal oppression of Christianity and the omission of...
Show moreEcofeminist theory exposes the androcentric monopoly of meaning-making and its resulting oppression of women, people of color, and the earth. Because women have been marginalized in historical and religious discourses, these theorists emphasize the need for women to develop an alternative, inclusive worldview that rejects binary, hierarchical thought. Like feminist theorists, Contemporary American women writers have also tackled the patriarchal oppression of Christianity and the omission of women's historical contributions in their fiction. In their works, authors like Toni Morrison, Linda Hogan, and Julia Alvarez have reimagined women's history by fictionalizing historical events. Despite racial differences, all three authors similarly detail the oppressive nature of the patriarchal worldview, reject binary thought, and utilize goddess figures as catalysts for awakening female consciousness. By detailing the characters' shift in consciousness, these novels act as a form of consciousnessraising for their readers, and can therefore be considered activist texts.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000912
Subject Headings
Feminist literary criticism., Women and literature., American literature--Women authors--Criticism and interpretation., Patriarchy--Religious aspects--Christianity., Feminism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Format
Document (PDF)
Feminism and revolution: Ideological coalescence in Gioconda Belli's "La mujer habitada"
Title
Feminism and revolution: Ideological coalescence in Gioconda Belli's "La mujer habitada".
Creator
Tepper, Sandra., Florida Atlantic University, Erro-Peralta, Nora
Abstract/Description
The feminist ideology Gioconda Belli develops in La mujer habitada is a critique of the dictatorial and/or patriarchal restrictions which oppress her women characters. In the novel, the protagonists, Itza a mythological woman warrior from the time of the Spanish Conquest, and Lavinia, a Sandinista guerillera during the Somoza regime, are revolutionary characters who transgress the limitations inherent in the traditional societal roles of "passive" females. Itza challenges the pre-Colonial and...
Show moreThe feminist ideology Gioconda Belli develops in La mujer habitada is a critique of the dictatorial and/or patriarchal restrictions which oppress her women characters. In the novel, the protagonists, Itza a mythological woman warrior from the time of the Spanish Conquest, and Lavinia, a Sandinista guerillera during the Somoza regime, are revolutionary characters who transgress the limitations inherent in the traditional societal roles of "passive" females. Itza challenges the pre-Colonial and Colonial patriarchal ideology, while Lavinia seeks to undermine at once the official state discourse of the Somoza dictatorship, and the phallocentric revolutionary ideology of some of the Sandinistas. In the process, these female characters constitute themselves as subjects and challenge the male-centered canon that so often objectifies women and devalues their creativity.
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Date Issued
1996
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15265
Subject Headings
Belli, Gioconda,--1948---Criticism and interpretation, Belli, Gioconda,--1948---Mujer habitada, Central American literature, Women in literature, Feminism and literature--Central America--History and criticism, Revolutionary literature, Latin American--History and criticism, Literature and revolutions, Feminist literary criticism, Politics and literature--Central America
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