In ‘Skeletons of Men’ and ‘A Woman Like Me’‚ Enchi Fumiko and Xi Xi explore the construction of a female self and the idea of a female voice within systems that suppress them. With the use of a female narrator and the process of storytelling‚ the female characters in these texts are given a voice through which their experiences are told indirectly. This alternative channel of communication‚ despite ultimately still being limited in reach‚ allows these oppressed women to express their personal self
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‘A critical reading and contextualisation of West Side Story written by Arthur Laurents‚ music by Leonard Bernstein‚ lyrics by Stephan Sondheim and choreographed by Jerome Robbins.’ West Side Story is a 1961 film set in the mid-1950s in the upper west side of New York. West Side Story is based and inspired by Williams Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story. In West Side Story the protagonist is the former leader of the Jets‚ Tony‚ who
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Rhys‚ Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. London: Penguin‚ 2001. Rich‚ Adrienne. When we Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision. Http://www.nbu.bg/webs/amb/american/5/rich/writing.htm accessed 23/11/2009. Said‚ Edward. Orientalism. London: Penguin‚ 2003. Spivak‚ Gayatri Chakravorty. ‘Three Women’s Text and a Critique of Imperialism. Henry Louis Gates ed. ‘Race’ and Writing Difference. Chicago: Chicago University Press‚ 1985. pp.262 – 78. Widdowson‚ Peter‚ ‘Writing Back’: Contemporary Revisionary Fiction. Textual Practice
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History of Indian Women In The Past And Today Introduction The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. From a largely unknown status in ancient times through the low points of the medieval period‚ to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers‚ the history of women in India has been eventful History There are very few texts specifically dealing with the role of women; an important exception is the strIdharmapaddhati of Tryambakayajvan
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together into an ideology of sort. From this ideology stems individual motivation‚ action‚ and engagement. For example‚ one’s decision to become a social activist may stem from a reading of Karl Marx and his discussion of the alienated worker or Gayatri Spivak and her musings about the subaltern. One’s decision to become a Christian – be it a ‘born again evangelical’ or a traditional Episcopalian – is heavily influenced by the act of reading John 14:6. The second role is distinguishable from the first
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Choose 2 theories from Semester 1 and highlight the advantages and disadvantages of the theories’ application. In this essay two theories will be examined in regards to their advantages and disadvantages‚ when applied. For this‚ Feminism and Post-Colonialism will be used‚ as both theories unite in their aim to deconstruct the dominant ideologies and stereotypes in a patriarchal and imperialistic ‘white European male ’ dominated society‚ thus overthrowing centuries of colonization‚ subordination
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The Subaltern in India The ground breaking text Orientalism written by Edward Said widened the arena for the post-colonial thinkers to consider the text with a new mechanism in Third World context. Orientalism has developed a purported approach of binary opposition to dismantling the East/West dualism in relation to Eurocentric edifice. The focal point of Said’s study is the ‘West’ and its observation of the ‘East’. The former having all positive traits: white‚ brave‚ dynamic‚ civilized‚ cultured
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Hollywood Studio ProductHollywood Studio Productions have had a reputation to frustrate the efforts of the historians and other scholars‚ to document it with a collection of data‚ or archive the film production. According to Jan-Christopher Horak‚ the studios singlehandedly had been responsible for the uncooperativeness in making their material available to academician. ‘While treating their production records as secret matters of national security‚ on one hand‚ they have on the other rarely taken
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With the all current events trending the deaths of unarmed black men by police officers‚ predominant issues that involve the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson‚ the chokehold death of Eric Garner‚ the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice along with other injustices that persistently take place‚ all echo a shameful American history regarding race relations. Exploring the possibilities and/or major issues to understanding why this continues begins with colonialism and post-colonialism factors. How
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"These writers explore both the social roles that confine them and the bodies that represent the confinement". In light of this quotation‚ compare how the writers explore gender. ’Wide Sargasso Sea’‚ by Jean Rhys‚ and ’Sula’ by Toni Morrison are both novels that respond to the issues of women that are confined to their social roles. Grace Nichols’ book‚ ’The Fat Black Woman’s Poems’‚ supports and also contrasts the views of both Rhys and Morrison. All three texts question gender roles and oppression
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