Sep 2026· JODEM: Journal of Language and Literature· Vol 17, pp. 87-98· 0 citations
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This research article analyzes the novel French Loverby Taslima Nasrin emphasizing the concepts of essence and existence to explore the instincts of the characters. The protagonist, Nilanjana Mandal navigates the journey of free will, emphasizing her‘self’ to live on her own as she is dominated as inferior.The paper situates Nilanjana’s decision as an attempt to have autonomy in life rather than being a submissive wife.Her desire to live on her own driven by her urge is an attempt to redraw new norms for her freedom. As a qualitative approach, it reviews articles and books concerning Nasrin and her work. The novel supplies information to explore how the characters exist while being guided by their instincts. Existentialism is used as theoretical perspective to explore how the protagonist in the novel has liberated herself rather than clinging to established norms and values that restrict her freedom. The analysis of the characters’ libidos and their personal convictions ensure the value of freedom in human society. The findings of this study indicate that the characters for their independence and freedom stand as free individuals without being attached to obstructive social norms which the perspective of existentialism emphasizes.
The aim is to study the sociocultural sufferings and the dilemma of Anita Nair's protagonists who find themselves tattered between social conventions and traditions and their inordinate urge to transgress these boundaries and fulfill their desires. In The Better Man (2000) Nair talks about quest for identity and self r...
Shalini Sharma· International Journal For Mu...· 0 citations
This article examines Ella Marchmill, the protagonist of Thomas Hardy’s “An Imaginative Woman” (1893), as an embodiment of the anxiety of authorship to explore her artistic aspirations and the narrative strategies for confronting and overcoming anxieties surrounding female authorship in the Victorian era. Set in the fi...
Erkin Kıryaman· SÖYLEM Filoloji Dergisi· 0 citations
Knowledge is constructed through questioning. In line with this, Nigerian feminist author Buchi Emechet a questions the traditional methods of stereotyping the role of motherhood, which overtly demonstrates how deliberately political it is to confine a woman merely within her role as a mother, even if she possesses eve...
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Iskandar Afiq Hafizuddin Shaharuddin, Siti Normala Hamzah, Izra Inna Md Idris· International journal of res...· 0 citations
This study focuses on Tova Mirvis, an author who, despite enjoying considerable public success, has been largely overlooked by academic criticism. The present paper aims to fill this gap through an analysis of her debut novels,
The Ladies Auxiliary
(1999) and
The Outside World
(2004). These two works explore dail...
Simona Porro· Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie...· 0 citations
Irish playwright Marina Carr’s Woman and Scarecrow (2006) stages the last hours of a dying woman, with a particular focus on her inner dialogue with Scarecrow, a figure that can be read as Woman’s true self in Winnicott’s terms. While this article highlights Woman’s imprisonment in a capitalist patriarchal world to exp...
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