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In this master's paper, the author studies the written construction of the ethos of the female characters in the essay from Madeleine and Georges de Scudery that was published in 1642 in Paris, Les Femmes illustres ou les harangues heroiques. She demonstrates how the authors refused the usual accepted practices in literature at that time to claim a right for women to develop their intellect in the way men could develop theirs. Therefore, she compares the contents of the essay with two important visions of women in literature: one of a strong women, as exposed in the literature linked to the "Querelle des femmes", and one of a weeping mistress screaming out all of her pain and sorrow, inspired from the Heroides d'Ovide. She shows how the text of the Scudery is different from the ones related to the "Querelle des femmes". She studies the formal characteristics of the harangue and she compares a rhetoric analysis of the scuderian texts with a quick study of the latin epistles. By doing so, the author wants to make the originality emerge out of the female characters of the Femmes illustres. She wants to emphasize the fact that the authors of that essay allowed women to become the subjects rather than the objects of the speeches. They gave them a chance to express their courage, their pride and their ambitions rather than confining them exclusively to family, love and religion matters, breaking out the traditional scope of the female speech.

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Bibliography: leaves 273-284. This thesis examines the autobiographical texts of the Aboriginal women writers, Oodgeroo, Margaret Tusker and Monica Clare, in light of the 'community of commitment' which supported their publications. It considers how and why the Aboriginal women elicted outside support and how the ideology of the group informed the epistemology of the text.The role of collaborating white editors and professional editors are examined as crucial in influencing the style and content of the finished piece. The original manuscripts are compared against the published editions and the changes implemented by the editor are described. Following Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhaba, the adoption of the white ideological lattice by the Aboriginal author is characterised as the white mask of colonial mimicry. The outcomes of cross-cultural impersonation of the white editor are discussed, with the editorial collaboration viewed as the imposition of stereotyped representations of Aboriginality.

Orientador: Isabella Tardin Cardoso / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T00:04:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Juliani_TalitaJanine_M.pdf: 1830266 bytes, checksum: f1e4ae2eabafbc7da8469937152c8f42 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Nossa pesquisa apresenta uma tradução parcial do De Claris Mulieribus, catálogo de biografias femininas escrito por Giovanni Boccaccio entre 1361-1362. A tradução, que é a primeira da obra no Brasil, compreende Dedicatória, Proêmio e as 40 primeiras biografias constantes da obra, e é acompanhada de um estudo introdutório, composto por três capítulos. O primeiro capítulo visa oferecer breves dados a respeito da formação do autor certaldense e do ambiente cultural de seus leitores coevos - com destaque à sua relação com a literatura greco-romana, bem como um panorama de sua produção, tanto vernácula quanto latina. No segundo capítulo, por sua vez, buscamos localizar a obra em apreço dentre as produções latinas boccaccianas, e discorrer sobre sua estrutura e composição. Por fim, no Capítulo III, guiando-nos por metodologia intertextual, dedicamo-nos brevemente à relação do texto da obra De Claris com outros textos. Nesse âmbito, como amostra da riqueza de sentidos, uma análise de biografias boccaccianas (Tisbe XIII, e Medeia XVII) será elaborada a partir de sua relação com excertos de Ovídio / Abstract: Our research presents a partial translation of De Claris Mulieribus, a collection of female biographies written by Giovanni Boccaccio between 1361-1362. The present translation, which is the very first one of its kind in Brazil, comprises Dedication, Preface and the first 40 biographies contained in his work, and it is followed by an introductory study composed of three chapters. The first chapter aims to provide concise data regarding the formation of the Italian author from Certaldo and the cultural environment of his coeval readers, focusing on his relation with the Greco-Roman literature, as well as an overview of his production, both vernacular and Latin. In the second chapter, we intended to position the work in appreciation within Boccaccian's Latin productions, and also to consider its structure and composition. Finally, in Chapter III, guided by intertextual methodology, we had briefly dedicated ourselves to the relation of the text of De Claris work with other texts. In this scope, as an illustration of the richness of meanings, an analysis of the Boccaccio's biographies (Thisbe XIII and Medea XVII) will be elaborated from its relation with excerpts from Ovid / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestre em Linguística

Within the Mormon culture, women are expected to marry, raise children, and be a "helpmeet" to their husbands. Both men and women are taught that they cannot attain the highest degree of heaven unless they are married in a Mormon temple, where they have been "sealed for time and all eternity." Although neither one can achieve this lofty goal without the other, and although there are some aspects of the Mormon culture in which there is a fair degree of equality between men and women, there is no denying that this is a patriarchal culture. Men hold the priesthood and they preside in their homes. The woman is the man's companion and counselor. Kathy Haynie converted to Mormonism when she was just eighteen, and she met and married her husband only two years later. She is committed to her religion and to her new family, and so she is as surprised as anyone when she begins to chafe under a manipulative and controlling husband. She is naive and credulous, and so she assumes that she needs to pray more, keep her mouth shut, and endure to the end. All of that changes when she attends a week of outdoor training for Boy Scout leaders, where she is one of only a handful of woman, and the only woman in her training patrol. Near the end of the week, Kathy realizes that she has been ignoring a self she has held within for fifteen years. Torn between her love of her children and her commitment to stable family life, and the increasing need she feels for genuine companionship, Kathy navigates the uncertain realm of friendship with one of her scouting friends. We watch her blossom as she gains confidence and skills to take her family out into the wilderness at the same time that she is deluding herself about her involvement with her friend. Family, faith, and friendship collide in this memoir of a Mormon wife and mother.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of English

The study critically investigated the concept of ―Double Consciousness‖ in selected African-American autobiographies. In view of the latter, W.E.B. Du Bois defined double consciousness as a condition of being both black and American which he perceived as the reason black people were/are being discriminated in America. The study demonstrated that creative works such as Harriet Jacobs‘ Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl: Told by Herself, Frederick Douglass‘ The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois‘ The Souls of Black Folk, Booker T. Washington‘s Up from Slavery, Langston Hughes‘ The Big Sea, Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on a Road, Malcolm X‘s The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Maya Angelou‘s All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes, Cornel West‘s Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud and bell hooks‘ Bone Black affirm double consciousness as well as critiqued the concept, revealing new layers of identities and contested sites of struggle in African-American society. The study used a qualitative method to analyse and argue that there are ideological shifts that manifest in the creative representation of the idea of double consciousness since slavery. Some relevant critical voices were used to support, complicate and question the notion of double consciousness as represented in selected autobiographies. The study argued that there are many identities in the African-American communities which need attention equal to that of race. The study further argued that double consciousness has been modified and by virtue of this, authors suggested multiple forms of consciousness. / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English)