scholarly journals Recalcitrant Framing in Kate Chopin’s “Her Letters”

LETRAS ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 93-106
Author(s):  
Sandra Argüello Borbón
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Story Theory ◽  
Female Protagonist

Short story theory in English allows for an analysis of certain particularities of the genre. This article addresses the story “Her Letters,” by Kate Chopin, from the perspective of textual framing: intratextual, extratextual, intertextual and circumtextual views. The recalcitrance resulting from the interplay of these frames produces a reading of the story from the subversive position of the female protagonist and the letters she leaves upon her death, letters that frame the binomial silence/word.

scholarly journals The Depressed Female Characters From Their Intimidated Surrounding as Seen in The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s, A Rose For Emily By William Faulkner’s, and The Story of an Hour By Kate Chopin

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Cut Ruby Miranda ◽  
Helmita Helmita
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Kate Chopin ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Full Power ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The Yellow Wallpaper

In writing this thesis, the writer discusses the depression of women because of patriarchal traditions, even though they already know about women's rights and freedoms. This patriarchal tradition is that men hold full power over anything and women must always obey the rules of men. The women are required not to do any activities, in terms of education and employment. Women are only allowed to do homework. This applies to all women, both single and married. This began in the 90s, especially in the United States. In writing the thesis, the writer uses psychological and feminist theories according to Sigmund Freud and Maggie Humm, who will explore the psychological side of women who are oppressed by the existence of this patriarchal custom. The purposes of this paper are: (1) To describe psychological-feminist cases in female characters (2) To analyze psychological-feminists in depressed female characters (3) To explain the psychological-feminist influence with female characters in the short story of The Yellow Wallpaper from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, A Rose For Emily from William Faulkner, The Story Of An Hour by Kate Chopin. The author uses descriptive qualitative methods in processing data. Through analysis of several existing sources and data. Based on available data, the writer discover how the psychology of depressed female characters from their environment is intimidated based on the short story. In fact women can become depressed because their freedom of expression is hampered and prohibited by tradition. With the writing of this thesis, it is hoped that the public can find out what exactly the meaning of women's emancipation is without having to put down women or men.

scholarly journals War Memories and the Refusal of Male Dominance in Shakir's "Oh, Lebanon"

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Hassan Ali Abdullah Al-Momani
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
The United States ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Arab Culture ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
War Memories

This study investigates the role of the war memories in the construction of the female gender identity in Evelyin Shakir's "Oh, Lebanon," in which the female protagonist refuses to belong to her Arab identity when she lives in the United States because of the brutal war memories she witnesses in Lebanon. Such memories make the protagonist unable to accept her submissive gender role in the Arab culture. In other words, these memories of war motivate the protagonist to revolt against her father's will and to choose her own way of building her identity away from the influence of her Arab culture and traditions. The methodology of this paper is based on a close reading analysis of some quotations from Shakir's short story which will be analyzed to see how the war memories in Lebanon have influenced the construction of the protagonist's gender identity. The study concludes that the trauma of war motivates Arab female gender to react against the male dominance and traditions because war, with its dark memories, might uncover that hidden desire in female's subconscious mind to feel unlimited or constrained with the male dominance.

scholarly journals Ser Mexicano o Húngaro?

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Csikós
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
History And Literature

The oeuvre of Susana Wein, Mexican writer of Hungarian origins often represents the controversial quest for identity carried out by immigrants and their descendants. The author proposes to examine these dilemmas of identity in Wein's collection of short stories En tiempo mexicano... cuentos húngaros (1985) and her novel titled La abuela me encargó a sus muertos (2005), both written in Spanish. The characters of Wein's prose enable the reader to follow the evolution and change of the problematics of identity from one generation to the next. For example, while the female protagonist of the short story Draga Rocza is proud of her Hungarian identity and is determined to preserve it, the heroine of Una historia de amor has ambitions of quick assimilation, motivated by social and individual interests. The narrator figure of the short story El día en que renuncié a mi nacionalidad presents the dilemma of second-generation immigrants born into a different culture. The author argues that the characters of Wein's novel undergo the same identity crisis: the grandmother's homesickness never seems to cease, the grandchild wants to return to her roots, and Uncle Isidor symbolizes the importance of remembering. Thus, Wein's prose offers a fusion of history and literature, filling the dry historical facts with life through her characters.

scholarly journals Existential Angst in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour

NCC Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-99
Author(s):  
Kishor Paudel
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Meaningful Existence ◽  
American Society ◽  
Traditional Structures ◽  
The Mind

The present article on Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour (1894) explores women’s anxieties and struggles for self identity within the arena of strict social and traditional structures deeply rooted in the then American society in the late nineteenth century. Through this short story, Chopin portraits her feminist view and uses her own inspiration for surviving normal life in the mind of the American women for whom existing freely realizing their identity and potentiality had been far cry. Thus, drawing upon the idea of Simone de Beauvoir and other writers, this paper examines the desire and struggle of the female protagonist, Mrs. Mallard for her meaningful existence in the male-dominated society in America.

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