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Changing seasons : examining three decades of women's writing in Greater Syria and EgyptElayan, Suzanne January 2012 (has links)
Throughout the last three decades, the Arab region has attracted the unwanted attention of the rest of the world because of its spiralling political upheaval. This unrest has caused migration, economic and cultural changes, and eventually a spring of revolutions and protests in demand of reform. Arab countries are now in the spotlight of global current affairs, and all the imperfections regarding their cultural, social, and gender inequalities have surfaced to the foreground. Arab women novelists have been addressing feminist issues for centuries, chipping away at the stereotypical image of the meek and voiceless Arab woman that comes hand in hand with Orientalism. Through their fiction, writers such as Nawal El Saadawi, Hanan Al- Shaykh and Fadia Faqir have promulgated a bold brand of Arab feminist thought. This interdisciplinary thesis explores the Greater Syrian and Egyptian woman's novel written between 1975 and 2007. Through the in-depth analysis of Arab women's novels available in English, I attempt to uncover the many reasons behind today's gender inequality in Greater Syria and Egypt. By examining contemporary Arabic narrative styles and cultivating traditional Arab story-telling methods, the creative element of this thesis uses fiction to expose social and political injustice. The novel within this thesis challenges different forms of patriarchy that are dominant in the region, and endeavours to document a historical, on-going revolution.
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Corps, identité et féminité chez Nelly Arcan et Marie-Sissi LabrècheDugas, Marie-Claude 08 1900 (has links)
Dans une société qui assiste à la confusion des territoires du privé et du
public, le culte du corps et la valorisation de normes esthétiques féminines
semblent littéralement envahir l’espace narratif et magnifier le dualisme entre
l’être et le paraître. Il va sans dire que cette nouvelle façon de penser et de
concevoir le corps, notamment le corps féminin, a une incidence sur l’écriture des
femmes contemporaines. Intimement lié à la construction identitaire du sujet, le
corps incarne dans les oeuvres littéraires une nouvelle « féminité » dont le présent
mémoire vise à explorer les paramètres littéraires, psychanalytiques et
sociologiques.
C’est dans le contexte d’une corporalité reconfigurée que l’inscription de la
triade corps/identité/féminité dans les textes littéraires de Nelly Arcan et de Marie-Sissi Labrèche sera étudiée par l’analyse d’oeuvres significatives publiées au début de ce troisième millénaire : Putain et À ciel ouvert, d’une part, Borderline et La Brèche, d’autre part. Le corps est au coeur de la quête identitaire des protagonistes présentées dans ces récits. Mais ce corps s’érigeant souvent en obstacle devient le lieu d’une difficile image de soi et contribue à renforcer l’agentivité négative, soit cette incapacité du sujet à tracer son avenir de manière positive, contre laquelle se battent les personnages féminins tout au long de la narration. C’est à ce propos que la position ambivalente des deux auteures est représentative des questions de filiation qui marquent la littérature contemporaine. / In a society in which boundaries between the private and the public are confused, body worship and the prizing of women’s beauty standards seem to pervade fiction and magnify the dualism between being and appearing. The new way of thinking about and conceiving the body, the female body in particular, has certainly had an effect on contemporary women’s writing. Inasmuch as the body is entwined with the formation of the protagonist’s identity, it embodies a new
femininity in literary works, of which this master’s thesis strives to explore the
literary, psychoanalytical and sociological parameters.
In the context of a remapped corporality, this thesis studies the body, identity
and femininity in four contemporary novels: Putain and À ciel ouvert by Nelly
Arcan, and Borderline and La Brèche by Marie-Sissi Labrèche. Although the body is
at the heart of the protagonists’ search for identity, it also often constitutes a hurdle
for them, resulting in a bad self-image and reinforcing the protagonists’ negative
agency against which all the female characters are struggling. The authors’
ambivalent positions on this matter are representative of the filiation issues
characterizing contemporary fiction.
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Acculturation and Its Affect on Afro-Caribbean Mother-Daughter RelationshipsAbrams, Bertranna Alero 13 August 2010 (has links)
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A Doctor's DaughterMaggio, Christopher Joseph 07 July 2016 (has links)
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Intergenerational Fashion Influences: Mother/Daughter Relationships and Fashion Involvement, Fashion Leadership, Opinion Leadership and Information Seeking from One AnotherKestler, Jessica L. January 2009 (has links)
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Changing stories and moving bones : correlation of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships in Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Ng's BoneFujii, So 04 June 2012 (has links)
This thesis argues for significant correlations in the politics of representation of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships in two literary texts by Maxine Hong Kingston and Fae Myenne Ng. The two novels do not follow traditional representations of Chinatown and provide critical representations of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships. First, Kingston's The Woman Warrior reveals how the heroine demystifies a powerful image of her mother and a mystic image of Chinatown in a process of establishing her autonomy. Second, Ng's Bone describes how the heroine tries to free her mother from a dismal image of Chinatown to live her own life outside Chinatown. The analyses of representation of Chinatown and mother-daughter relationships rely on close readings of the textual motifs through a psychoanalytic framework and cultural theories. / Graduation date: 2012
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