Writing as a Means of Female Resistance and Empowerment

Authors

  • Dr. Jyoti Bhatia Associate Professor, English Government College, Kishangarh, Rajasthan, India

Keywords:

Women’s Writing, Resistance, Empowerment, Identity, Marginality, Literary History.

Abstract

This paper explores how women use writing as a tool of rebellion, taking Alice Walker’s brilliant and disturbing 1982 novel ‘The Colour Purple’ as an example. The use of deeply personal narratives to not only make peace with their own struggles but to also share these experiences and inspiring a slew of similar works, Walker and her contemporaries have created a space that openly challenges the blatant sexism that inhabits the literary field.

Author Biography

Dr. Jyoti Bhatia, Associate Professor, English Government College, Kishangarh, Rajasthan, India

Dr Jyoti Bhatia is an Associate Professor of English. She has been teaching English language and literature in different Government Colleges in Rajasthan for almost 25 years and is presently posted at Government College Kishangarh. Her area of research has been Women's Writing. She worked on The Female Comic Tradition from Fanny Burney to George Eliot for her Ph.D. She is an active member of ELTAI (English Language Teachers’ Association of India) and also loves to give voice overs in Hindi and English.

References

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Published

01.01.2020

How to Cite

Jyoti Bhatia. (2020). Writing as a Means of Female Resistance and Empowerment. Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 11(1), 3–5. Retrieved from https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jtrel/article/view/47

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2020): January

Section

Research Articles

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