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Feminist resistance in contemporary American women writers of color: Unsettling images of the veil and the house in western culture.

机译:当代美国有色女性作家中的女性主义抵抗:西方文化中的面纱和房屋影像令人不安。

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The present dissertation offers a critical study of how two contemporary U.S. women writers critique, resist, dismantle and disrupt the hegemonic discourse that represents U.S. Third World women as a monolithic and homogeneous category. The unsettling of the monolithic image of U.S. Third World women is pursued through providing an analysis of the cultural imagery of gender, in which the focus is specifically on two key images: the veil and the house. In this research, I show how the two writers Mohja Kahf, an Arab-American, and Sandra Cisneros, a Chicana, examine dominant constructions of those two key images of gender and demonstrate the ways those constructions are oppressive distortions that entrap and disempower women. At the same time, I argue that not only are the two writers unsettling these specific constructions, but are also producing new meanings, and thus, new identities through contextualizing the two dehistoricized images.;This argument is developed within broad theoretical context of U.S. Third World Feminism. I explore the counter arguments made by U.S. Third World feminists in resistance to hegemonic Western feminist discourses that reinforce inequality, imperialist dominance, and injustice. Because of the heterogeneity of U.S. Third World women and the false notion of a global sisterhood, I provide a thorough discussion of commonalities and differences between them. I have chosen an Arab-American and Chicana woman writer as representatives of what are typically regarded as homogenized Third World cultures within the U.S.;In the discussion of Kahf's works I focus on the veil and look at the interconnection of factors of race, ethnicity, religion, colonialism, and imperialism that shape gender identity within a social formation. In Cisneros' works, I examine the image of the house and issues of race, class, and hybridity. In my conclusion, I argue that through an understanding of commonalities and differences between Western and U.S. Third World feminist thinking, a dynamic form of feminism emerges that can actually assist women around the world in their endeavor to gain equality and justice because it addresses the pressing issues pertaining to each particular culture on its own, while remaining open to building unity.
机译:本论文对两位当代美国女作家如何批评,抵抗,拆除和破坏霸权话语进行了批判性研究,霸权话语代表了美国第三世界妇女的整体和同质范畴。通过对性别的文化意象进行分析来追求美国第三世界妇女整体形象的不安,其中重点是面纱和房屋这两个关键图像。在这项研究中,我展示了两位阿拉伯裔作家Mohja Kahf和奇卡纳裔美国人Sandra Cisneros如何研究这两个关键性别形象的主导结构,并说明了这些结构是压迫性的歪曲,使妇女陷入困境并丧失了权能。同时,我认为,这两位作家不仅使这些特定的结构不安,而且还产生了新的含义,因此通过将两个非历史化的图像背景化而产生了新的身份。世界女权主义。我将探究美国第三世界女权主义者在反抗霸权主义西方女权主义话语时所提出的反驳论点,这种话语加剧了不平等,帝国主义统治和不公正现象。由于美国第三世界妇女的异质性和全球姐妹关系的错误观念,我将彻底讨论它们之间的共性和差异。我选择了一名阿拉伯裔美国人和奇卡纳州的女性作家作为美国境内通常被视为同质的第三世界文化的代表;在讨论卡赫夫的作品时,我着重探讨了面纱,并探讨了种族,种族,宗教,殖民主义和帝国主义塑造了社会形态中的性别认同。在Cisneros的作品中,我研究了房屋的形象以及种族,阶级和混合性的问题。在我的结论中,我认为,通过理解西方和美国第三世界女权主义思想之间的共性和差异,可以形成一种动态形式的女权主义,它可以真正帮助世界各地的妇女争取平等和正义,因为它解决了紧迫问题。与每种特定文化相关的问题,同时保持开放的统一性。

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  • 作者

    ALQutami, Mais Yusuf.;

  • 作者单位

    Indiana University of Pennsylvania.;

  • 授予单位 Indiana University of Pennsylvania.;
  • 学科 Literature Comparative.;Hispanic American Studies.;Womens Studies.;Literature American.;Sociology Ethnic and Racial Studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2009
  • 页码 265 p.
  • 总页数 265
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 文学理论;社会学;民族学;
  • 关键词

  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:37:49

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