A POSTCOLONIAL FEMINIST READING OF J. M. COETZEE’S WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (2000)

Postcolonial feminist reading of Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns

Postcolonial feminism is an exploration into the interactions of colonialism with gender, nation, class, race, and sexualities in different contexts of women’s lives. Postcolonial feminism or the ‘Third World feminism’ originated as a critique of mainstreams in the Western feminist theorists, investigating the portrayal of women in the literature and society of the colonized countries as margin...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

politics of violence: tormented body in j. m. coetzee’s waiting for the barbarians under the light of hannah arendt’s theories خشونت و جسم رنج دیده در رمان در انتظار بربرها اثر جی. ام. کوئتزی از منظر هانا آرنت

this thesis examines the significances and implications of inflicted physical pain in waiting for the barbarians (1980) by john maxwell coetzee (1940 - ). the researcher tries to show how body becomes a site for exercising violence. in this way, the government’s representatives turn bodies of the barbarians into blank pages through torturing in order to create the truth of the empire. in this p...

postcolonial feminist reading of khaled hosseini’s a thousand splendid suns

postcolonial feminism is an exploration into the interactions of colonialism with gender, nation, class, race, and sexualities in different contexts of women’s lives. postcolonial feminism or the ‘third world feminism’ originated as a critique of mainstreams in the western feminist theorists, investigating the portrayal of women in the literature and society of the colonized countries as margin...

J. M. Coetzee and the Postcolonial Rhetoric of Simultaneity