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The Emotion Rebelling And Modern Surmount Of Jewish Women

Posted on:2010-05-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:A H WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278496831Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Love Life was written by Zeruya Shalev,a Jewish contemporary female author, and by this work she won the reputation of"one of the talented female writer in the 1990s new wave of women's literature. Almost every work of Zeruya Shalev focused on female. She has been concentrated on female life and survival of state. Lavish female awareness is reflected by her work.This paper mainly sets out from the female angle of view, use the feminist theory to analyzes and interpret the novel Love Life.The first part introduces the creation of Zeruya Shalev and her female thinking.It also introduces the story in the novel.The second part, analyzes the female character in the novel. Love Life shows the female with different personality. From their experience we can find a clear evolution process of a female character. That is from victims of traditional society to resister of patriarchal society and then to the feminism executer. By the evolution process of female character from weak to strong, the paper reviews the female subject consciousness.The third part points out that the novel rebels the traditional patriarchal society from anti-body narration and gender right fight. The novel doesn't directly refute male hegemony and male political discourse. While it refutes from the body which is the source of social oppression to women in the male society. On the other hand, gender right becomes the basis of male domination of women. In this novel, female realizes the despoiling of right from male by gender exchanging. It has great significance on rebelling the male culture.The fourth part interprets the legend about holy city destruction. A great of the legends about the holy city destruction appear in the novel. All of these legends blame the female for the destruction of the holly city. This is related to the Hebrew history and culture. The heroine, re-interprets one of legends which is successful practice to "resist sex" reading, that is raised by feminists. This kind of reading sets an example for the interpretation of similar work in female perspective. It also breaks the traditional conception which believes that women are evil and depraved. It rebuilds the female character. All of these have great effect on rebuilding the women'confidence, especially on those who are marginalized...
Keywords/Search Tags:Love Life, female character, anti-body narration, gender right, fighting resist sex reading
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