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Download full textBen Zid, Mounir – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
Significant headway has been made in investigating white feminist monolithic strategies and exploring how black females have suffered from patriarchal ideology and stereotyping, and how they were placed in an inferior position and treated as slaves and sexual machines. In research conducted on women of color, however, little attention is paid to…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Feminism, Disproportionate Representation
Lan, Tian; Jingxia, Liu – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
Language, as a tool for people's daily communication, has no gender bias itself. With the development of society, the language has changed correspondingly. Language serve as the mirror of society, inevitably reflecting people's minds or ideology as well as the culture and social conditions of a society. While in English, as the mother tongue of…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias, Interpersonal Communication, English
Endurance, Anegbe; Majeed, Abdulhameed A.; Gift, Gariagan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Emecheta's writing gives an impression to readers that specifically, Nigerian culture is passive and patriarchal and that she does not see a suitable position for women in such a depressing male dominated society. The pivotal issues in the novel are slavery, motherhood, marriage and African traditions over its influence of the modern world.…
Descriptors: Novels, Twentieth Century Literature, Females, Gender Discrimination
Safak, Zafer – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Epic theater, which is formed by Bertolt Brecht in the early 20th century and peaks in the following decades, challenges the persistent drama convention initiated first by Aristotle. Bertolt Brecht, who is propelled by Marxist convictions and dialectical conception of history while shaping his epic theatre, aims to expose social degradation,…
Descriptors: Drama, English Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, Propaganda
Chaudhry, Sajid M.; Christopher, Anne A.; Krishnasamy, Hariharan A/L N. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
The study examines the issue of gender discrimination in the post death scenario of obituarial discourse. It aims to identify the way Pakistani newspaper obituaries recognize and project males and females after their deaths. A total of 601 paid obituaries published in a year's time span in Pakistani English newspapers were evaluated for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Newspapers, Death, English
Yakubu, Anthonia Makwemoisa – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This paper addresses the incidence of 'Women against Women' in Nigerian folklore. Much has been written on Nigerian folklore, but mainly from within the mortal axis, as reflected in many folktales that cut across different communities in Nigeria. However, it has been observed that this gender phenomenon extends to the supernatural realm, where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Culture, Folk Culture, Females
