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McCarty, Rachael Engel.

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Imprisonment and the captive body: Postcolonial reactions to Victorian gender identity in "The God of Small Things" and "Nervous Conditions".

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imprisonment and the captive body: Postcolonial reactions to Victorian gender identity in "The God of Small Things" and "Nervous Conditions"./
Author:	McCarty, Rachael Engel.
Description:	94 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-01.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International54-01(E).
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1569409
ISBN:	9781321348620

Imprisonment and the captive body: Postcolonial reactions to Victorian gender identity in "The God of Small Things" and "Nervous Conditions".
McCarty, Rachael Engel.

Imprisonment and the captive body: Postcolonial reactions to Victorian gender identity in "The God of Small Things" and "Nervous Conditions". - 94 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-01.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Alabama, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This project examines idealized Victorian gender definitions of womanhood and their appearance in postcolonial literature from the 20th century. Victorian England, a patriarchal culture, allowed the expression of femininity in limited terms: a woman was expected to behave like the unrealistic concept of the angel in the house. Often, women who expressed their femininity in ways that did not reflect this concept were criticized and labeled as madwomen, and they were treated with rest therapy, which allowed dominant male figures to confine these women to their homes. After Sigmund Freud introduced psychotherapy and after Charlotte Perkins Gilman published "The Yellow Wallpaper," rest therapy was phased out, and women could no longer be easily manipulated into behaving in an idealized manner. These unrealistic standards of femininity are found later on in the 20th century postcolonial texts Nervous Conditions and The God of Small Things. Both Tsitsi Dangarembga and Arundhati Roy trace the progression of female empowerment across multiple generations in these texts, and female characters are made to navigate the difficult intersection of Victorian culture and their native culture. When the characters understand these complexities, they are able to reconstruct femininity on their own terms.

ISBN: 9781321348620Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

Imprisonment and the captive body: Postcolonial reactions to Victorian gender identity in "The God of Small Things" and "Nervous Conditions".
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