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.
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