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Non-human nature as a subject in A mercy (2008) by Toni Morrison and The year of the flood (2009) by Margaret Atwood
(2014)
(...) This paper, then, interrogates the notion of “subject” resorting to the perspective of
ecocriticism. In order to do so, Chapter II presents the main theoretical framework
discussing the notion of subject and ...
Capitalism, Patriarchy and Women in John Irving’s The Cider House Rules
(2022)
This study intends to analyse the construction of the female body and women’s oppression
in the capitalist and patriarchal society from the gender perspective and socialist feminist
criticism. In John Irving’s The Cider ...
Towards the building of a hybrid identity : an analysis of Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera and Jhumpa Lahiri's Mrs. Sen’s
(2014)
Cultures are characterized by diversity, and such diversity is manifested in those spaces of encounter and conflict where there is an overlap of identities which try to coexist. In the case of immigrants, once they are ...
The abject and the death of the Females in Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia" and "Berenice"
(2018)
The stories inscribed in the Gothic period have become a source for readers to have access to mysterious events and eerie circumstances that, through an intimate view into the relationship between the living and the ...
Cultural identity : different ways of constructing identity for first-and-second generation immigrants in The namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
(2015)
Various cultural studies and social theories have analyzed the concept of cultural identity from different perspectives. On one end of the spectrum, there is essentialism, which asserts that there exist some objective ...