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Anticipative Feminism In F. Scott Fitzgerald’S This Side Of Paradise And Flappers And Philosophers, Andrew Riccardo
Anticipative Feminism In F. Scott Fitzgerald’S This Side Of Paradise And Flappers And Philosophers, Andrew Riccardo
The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English
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Reverential Feminism: (Re) Considering The Status Of Women In The African Novel, Joseph M. Brogdon
Reverential Feminism: (Re) Considering The Status Of Women In The African Novel, Joseph M. Brogdon
The Corinthian
In assessing the African novel from a twenty-first century Western perspective, the tendency inevitably arises to interpret the culture as inherently bearing an excessive force of patriarchal subjugation against which all African women must struggle. Perhaps such a reading is not entirely unwarranted, but if this is the chosen lens for interpretation, it then becomes necessary distinguish the author’s beliefs from those represented in the cultural attitudes of their text. In failing to make this ideological distinction between the world of the novel and the world of the novelist, it becomes easy to err in the way of too readily …