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Essay On Feminist Narratology

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Feminist Narratology and its Significance to the present study

Feminist narratology is one of the strands of narratology and its tenets helped answer research questions. Feminist narratology is part of the reconceptualization of narratology.
It is expressed as transition from early structuralism studies of narrative which approached texts as objects that could be analyzed in scientific and systematic manner to a post-modern position where different kinds of questions are asked of the analysis, with the recognition that both the text and analysis cannot be neutral but may be ideologically loaded in some way (Currie, 1998).
According to Knutson (1989), gender / power relations are encoded in narrative form, and at the three levels of fabula, story, and text, feminist narratology can break the code. A female obstacle, at the level of fabula, frequently signifies patriarchal overwriting. A male subject with a female object and / or obstacle always indicates conformity with patriarchal gender, and may also mark the erasure of a female hero. At the story level, events are focalized through an external focalizer or character-focalizer who experiences the events of the fabula: Who is sensing, seeing, hearing and …show more content…

Since sampling technique is flexible and depends on the resources and time available for the researcher (Barasa, 2013). Two novels by Saadawi were considered sufficient to answer the research questions and meet the objectives of the study. In this regard, the study employed purposive sampling. The technique enabled the researcher to use cases that have the required information with respect to the research objectives and research questions of the study. The two novels by Saadawi, God Dies by the Nile (1985) and Woman at Point Zero (1982) were deliberately selected because they had the characteristics of focus for the

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