Family and Patriarchy in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1868) and Assia Djebar’s Nulle part dans la maison de mon père (2007)
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Date
2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
The present dissertation is a thematic study in which we have made a parallelism between two literary works’; Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1868) and Assia Djebar’s Nulle part dans la maison de mon père (2007). The study is concerned with showing the protagonists’ feminist position focusing on the theme of patriarchy. To achieve our goal, we have relied on Simone De Beauvoir’s theory entitled The Second Sex (1949). We have shown how both novelists approach the issue of women’s alienation in their works. Thus, in our dissertation, we have revealed the revolt of American and Algerian women against sexism, social norms and male dominance in order to gain their own identity and live freely. The work comprises a discussion of two important issues; the first part includes the patriarchal system in families in America and Algeria, the repression of women and their objectification in both mentioned works, while the second one discusses the resistance and the stand of the authors shown in their works. As far as our findings, we may say that authors portray women suffering discrimination, injustice, alienation and inequality from the patriarchal system. They described how these women rebelled and defied patriarchy. These two authors allowed us to study two literary works in relation to rebellion and freedom.
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63p. ; 30cm.(+CD-Rom)
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Alienation, oppression, social norms, patriarchal society, rebellion, freedom
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Littérature générale et comparée