Female Selfhood in Tori Morrison's Song of Solomon in Joyce Carol Oates' I Lock My Door Upon Myself

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 西洋文學研究所 === 85 === Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates are famous contemporary feministwriters, they both vividly describes the oppressed female characters in their works to present the problems in a patriarchal, raci...

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Main Authors: Chou, Wei-Wei, 鄒薇薇
Other Authors: Ding Shan-Xiong
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 1996
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82684231794538581349
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Summary:碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 西洋文學研究所 === 85 === Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates are famous contemporary feministwriters, they both vividly describes the oppressed female characters in their works to present the problems in a patriarchal, racist and capitalisticsociety. Both of them offer many valuable survival strategies to these oppressed women. In the study, I attempt to examine the oppressed female'sselfhood as demonstrated in the works. There are four chapters in this thesis. Chapter one introduces the authors and their works, as well as the purposes contained in these works. This chapter also discusses the oppression in the patriarchal, racist and capitalisticsociety toward women and blacks. Chapter two examines Morrison's motivationand expectation and the female characters' selfhood in Song of Solomonfocusing especially on Pilate's self-determing selfhood. Chapter three presents the relationship between Oates and her work, Calla's and the narrator's selfhood, and Oates' expectation toward future. Chapter four focuses on the similar and different oppression between black women and white women and the survival strategies for women in an oppressive society.