Redefining Difference in Jorge Luis Borges Collected Fictions (1998)
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2019
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
The present dissertation studies the issue of difference that shows racism, sexism and the
subordinate position of women in Jorge Luis Borges Collected Fictions (1944). This study aims
to highlight the differences that exist in South America during the twentieth century, the social
instability between different races and sexes that led to the confusion between characters from
different stories. To achieve our purpose we have relied on Audre Lords theory called Sister
Outsider Essays and Speeches: Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference (1984).
This dissertation follows the IMRAD method. It has three chapters. The first one is devoted to
the non-recognition of difference the three stories show how the superior race dominate the
lower one, while the second deals with racism and sexism, the two stories women are portrayed
as object. The last chapter deals with women and how they tried to achieve equality and join
power.
To sum up this work centered on the position of women some stories women are without any
resistance and in other stories, women are evidence of courage.
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53p. ; (+CD-Rom)
Keywords
racism, Jorge Luis Borges, South America, Collected Fictions (1998)
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Literature et Approche Interdisciplinaire