The Obstacles to and Solutions of Female Characters' Speech: Beatrice in Dante's Vita Nuova and Purgatorio and Susan in J. M. Coetzee's Foe

This thesis analyzes the speaking and silencing of two female characters, Beatrice from Dante’s Vita Nuova and Purgatorio and Susan from J. M. Coetzee’s Foe. The texts are viewed through postcolonial and feminist lenses to show the problems with male characters speaking for female characters and the...

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Main Author: Savage, Tamara
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2015
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1156
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2171&context=cmc_theses