Patriarchy and Women’s Resistance in Lauraine’s Hanberry A Raisin in the Sun (1959) and Malika Mokeddem ‘s The Forbidden Woman (1993).
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2023
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Mouloud Mammeri University
Abstract
We examined the issue of patriarchy and women's resistance in Lorraine Hansberry's A
Raisin in the Sun (1959) and Malika Mokeddem's The Forbidden Woman (1993). In the two
chapters devoted to each issue, we borrowed theoretical concepts, namelySimon
DeBeauvoir’s Otherness in her Second Sex (1949) ,and Chela Sandoval's Differential
Consciousness in her Methodology of the Oppressed (2000), to highlight how women from
different backgrounds endured patriarchy and how some fought for gender equality and
against traditional gender roles. In the first chapter of our work, we focused on the ways in
which women were marginalized and inferiorized, while in the second chapter, we revealed
how some women fought back against the different systems of oppression in various ways
within their communities, and that in both of the works. The study of the two works allowed us
to see that the Afro-American author Lorraine Hansberry and the Algerian francophone
author Malika Mokeddem, despite the different racial and societal backgrounds, similarly
portrayed the experiences of women in patriarchal societies and also their journey of
resistance.
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56p. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom)
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Oppression, patriarchy, resistance, social expectations and norms, traditional gender role
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Literature and interdisciplinary approaches