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Feminist Literary Criticism: A Paradigm of Matriarchy in Literature
Md. Masud Rana, Amina Rashid
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2020.02.001
Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
Feminist literary theory underpins literature from matriarchal perspective revolting against prototype patriarchal ritual i.e. established dogmatism, superstition, close-eyed religious propaganda, language engineering and so forth. It questions the textual politics of dissipating womankind in literature. It shatters long-cherishing outlook of gender inequality, gender politics, power relation, sexual objectification, oppression, patriarchy, stereotyping and so on. In this connection, this theory sees women along with their experiences, thinking, language, position and role playing, cultural conditioning, diction, and above all, matriarchal assertion in literature. Feminist literary criticism has been generated from feminism and the basic aim of the theory is to investigate and trace out how female characters have been positioned in literature compared with male characters in terms of social and biological factors of different ages of the past started from antiquity. Feminist literary theory has also deconstructed texts from two different perspectives i.e. text written by men and text written by women. This paper attempts to evalualte feminist literary criticism as a subtle machinery or paradigm of matriarchy not only in avant-garde but also in old texts of literature.
Avant-garde, feminist literary criticism, feminism, matriarchy, patriarchy, androtexts, gynotexts, psychoanalysis, ecrrture feminine
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