• Find People
  • Campus Map
  • PiratePort
  • A-Z
    • About
    • Submit
    • Browse
    • Login
    View Item 
    •   ScholarShip Home
    • Academic Affairs
    • Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences
    • English
    • View Item
    •   ScholarShip Home
    • Academic Affairs
    • Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences
    • English
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of The ScholarShipCommunities & CollectionsDateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypeDate SubmittedThis CollectionDateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsTypeDate Submitted

    My Account

    Login

    Statistics

    View Google Analytics Statistics

    Dismantling the Center from the Margins : Patriarchy and Transnational Literature by Women

    Thumbnail
    View/ Open
    Conwell_ecu_0600M_10561.pdf (513.4Kb)

    Show full item record
    Author
    Conwell, Joan
    Abstract
    This thesis explores the idea that transnational women writers are liminal figures: marginal as women, marginal as writers, and marginal as transnational personae "betwixt and between" nations. Authorial liminality provides a vantage point that is neither fully inside nor fully outside the system, and therefore privileges intimate literary confrontations with patriarchy. Beginning with a general discussion of transnational women writers, otherness, and liminality, the thesis progresses to more specific tropes--border crossing, Third Space, the subversive use of religious imagery and symbol, and the interplay between silence and voice--identified as anti-patriarchal devices in the works of contemporary transnational women writers. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, Elif Shafak's The Bastard of Istanbul, Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker, and Fadia Faqir's Pillars of Salt are discussed as novels emblematic of anti-patriarchal fiction by contemporary transnational women writers, and the thesis explores the four tropes in the context of these works.  
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3707
    Subject
     Literature; Women's studies; Comparative literature; Liminality; Patriarchy; Silence; Space; Transnational literature; Women; Purple hibiscus; Bastard of Istanbul, The; Dew breaker, The; Pillars of salt 
    Date
    2011
    Citation:
    APA:
    Conwell, Joan. (January 2011). Dismantling the Center from the Margins : Patriarchy and Transnational Literature by Women (Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3707.)

    Display/Hide MLA, Chicago and APA citation formats.

    MLA:
    Conwell, Joan. Dismantling the Center from the Margins : Patriarchy and Transnational Literature by Women. Master's Thesis. East Carolina University, January 2011. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3707. February 26, 2021.
    Chicago:
    Conwell, Joan, “Dismantling the Center from the Margins : Patriarchy and Transnational Literature by Women” (Master's Thesis., East Carolina University, January 2011).
    AMA:
    Conwell, Joan. Dismantling the Center from the Margins : Patriarchy and Transnational Literature by Women [Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; January 2011.
    Collections
    • English
    • Master's Theses
    Publisher
    East Carolina University

    xmlui.ArtifactBrowser.ItemViewer.elsevier_entitlement

    East Carolina University has created ScholarShip, a digital archive for the scholarly output of the ECU community.

    • About
    • Contact Us
    • Send Feedback