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Norma Jean’s Identity Pursuit in “Shiloh”
YU Qian-ying, WANG Hai-yan
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2021.12.003
Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
Bobbie Ann Mason is one of the representatives of American new southern writers. Her short story “Shiloh” is about the broken marriage of a southern American family. Starting from the family reasons and under the background of the times, this paper reveals the identity crisis faced by the heroine Norma Jean under the pressure of her broken marriage, economic pressure, and the social transformation of the Woman’s Liberation Movement. In order to get out of the identity crisis, Norma Jean is struggling in pain and seeking identity in confusion, which challenges the traditional male hegemony. The heroine Norma Jean’s identity construction shows her awakening of female consciousness. Woman’s self-identity and self-independence have been realized, and the transformation from traditional women to new women has gone through the process of awakening, growth and independence.
identity crisis, identity pursuit, identity construction
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, December 2021, Vol. 11, No. 12, 951-954
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