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題名 | Deconstructing Patriarchy/Reconstructing Womanhood: Feminist Readings of Multicultural Women's Murder Fiction= |
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作者 | 簡瑛瑛; Chien, Ying-ying; |
期刊 | Tamkang Review |
出版日期 | 19950900、19951200 |
卷期 | 26:1/2 民84.秋-冬 |
頁次 | 頁265-287 |
分類號 | 815.1 |
語文 | eng |
關鍵詞 | Feminism; Feminist fiction; Womanhood; Murder fiction; Patriarchy; Husband-killing; |
英文摘要 | Man-slaughtering or the murdering of husbands by women has attracted increasing social and scholarly attention recently. In the West, literary texts depicting the oppression of women in the family and work place and their act of revolt through killing their oppressors are being rediscovered and reexamined. In a growing body of feminist texts of the non-Western counterparts, similar motif of man-killing has become a symbolic gesture of the victimized women’s resistence toward patriarchal domination in cultures which legally sanction exploitation of women. This paper compares three representative works involving manslaughtering by feminist writers, namely, Li Ang’s Butcher’s Wife from Taiwan, Nawal EI Saddawi’s Woman at Point Zero from Egypt, and Bessie Head’s “The Collector of Treasures” from Botswana, to shed light on the underlying subversive nature of these literary texts. It adopts the feminist approach across cultural boundaries to reread the three fiction from the non-Western cultures of China, the Arab world, and South Africa. In terms of feminism, the personal/political/legal struggles between the “muted” and the “dominant” groups, between the “female killer” and the patriarchal “symbolic order” are explored. In terms of comparative study, the similarities and differences with regard to the heroines’ oppression and rebellion, as well as the writers’ literary representation and vision are examined. |
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