PART 2: Background and Context to Woman at. Point Zero. PART 3: Woman and
Point Zero. - Structure Narrative voice. - Repetition. - Scheherezade and Arab ...
Lecture Outline: PART 1: Researching Gendered Violence -Round table discussion: Reading distressing material - Theorising of Gendered Violence PART 2: Background and Context to Woman at
Point Zero PART 3: Woman and Point Zero - Structure Narrative voice - Repetition - Scheherezade and Arab Literary Tradition - Gendered Violence PART 4: Seminar Seminar discussion: In pairs discuss the question that you devised for today’s seminar. What inspired you to write that question and how you might answer it.
Transnational Feminism 2011/12 Term 2 Week 2: Nawal El Saadawi
Theorising Gendered Violence
Some Feminists who theorise Rape - Sheila Brownmiller - Catherine MacKinnon - Joanna Bourke ‘To define rape as primarily violent is to fail to - Ann Cahill address the particular sexual meanings that rape holds for women; to define rape as primarily sexual is to adopt a totalizing theory of power and to understand the feminine body and subject not only as constructed, but as only constructed. To arrive at a more complex and accurate understanding of the phenomenon of rape demands a more subtle and nuanced analysis of the phenomenon of feminine embodiment’ (Ann Cahill, 12).
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NEXT WEEK Edwidge Danticat’ Breath, Eyes, Memory Seminar preparation 1) What is the meaning of motherhood in the first chapter of Danticat’s novel? 2) What is the meaning of motherhood in the last chapter of Danticat’s novel? 3) How, if at all, has the understanding of motherhood changed as the narrative develops? 4) What is the role of the father in the novel? 5) Is there a note of hope and/or redemption in Danticat’s novel?
