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

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dc.contributor.advisorTaylor, Richard C., 1956-en_US
dc.contributor.authorConwell, Joanen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEnglishen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-18T20:11:39Z
dc.date.available2013-01-31T12:32:53Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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.  en_US
dc.description.degreeM.A.en_US
dc.format.extent62 p.en_US
dc.format.mediumdissertations, academicen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10342/3707
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherEast Carolina Universityen_US
dc.subjectLiteratureen_US
dc.subjectWomen's studiesen_US
dc.subjectComparative literatureen_US
dc.subjectLiminalityen_US
dc.subjectPatriarchyen_US
dc.subjectSilenceen_US
dc.subjectSpaceen_US
dc.subjectTransnational literatureen_US
dc.subjectWomenen_US
dc.subjectPurple hibiscus
dc.subjectBastard of Istanbul, The
dc.subjectDew breaker, The
dc.subjectPillars of salt
dc.subject.lcshPatriarchy in literature
dc.subject.lcshWomen authors
dc.subject.lcshLiterature and transnationalism
dc.subject.lcshTransnationalism
dc.subject.lcshAdichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977- . Purple hibiscus
dc.subject.lcshShafak, Elif, 1971- . Bastard of Istanbul
dc.subject.lcshDanticat, Edwidge, 1969- . Dew breaker
dc.subject.lcshFaqir, Fadia, 1956- . Pillars of salt
dc.titleDismantling the Center from the Margins : Patriarchy and Transnational Literature by Womenen_US
dc.typeMaster's Thesisen_US

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