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Download full textJamili, Leila Baradaran; Roshanzamir, Ziba – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The present article sheds new light on trauma as a devastating phenomenon respecting the construction of male and female characters' identities and reveals reconstruction of male and female identities in Virginia Woolf's (1882-1941) "The Waves" (1931). Trauma is defined as an unexpected event that leaves the most terrible marks on the…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Trauma, Novels
Al-Momani, Hassan Ali Abdullah – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Novels, War, Females
Zarrinjooee, Bahman; Khatar, Shahla – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This paper deals with Chinua Achebe's (1930-2013) "No Longer at Ease" (1960) which depicts the dissemination of English culture in Nigeria and its effects on the life and identity of Obi Okonkwo, the Western educated male protagonist. The focus of this paper is on the dissemination of English culture and submission of Nigerian culture in…
Descriptors: Foreign Culture, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Stereotypes
Zarrinjooee, Bahman; Kalantarian, Shirin – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The present study attempts to analyze Margaret Atwood's (1939-) "The Handmaid's Tale" (1985) based on theories of feminist thinker, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) and applies her theories presented in "The Second Sex" (1949) that leads to better apprehension of sex and gender. Beauvoir's ideology focuses mainly on the cultural…
Descriptors: Novels, Feminism, Females, Gender Bias
