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040			_aCY-NiCIU _beng _cCY-NiCIU _erda
041			_aeng
090			_aYL 2707 _bA33 2022
100	1		_aAbazid, Lara
245	1	0	_aOPPRESSION AGAINST WOMEN / _cLARA ABAZID; SUPERVISOR: ASSOC. PROF. DR. BEHBOOD MOHAMMADZADEH; CO-SUPERVISOR: PROF. DR. NAZIFE AYDINOĞLU
246	2	3	_aA COMPARATIVE FEMINIST READING OF WIDE SARGASSO SEA AND DAMASCUS BITTER SWEET
264			_c2022
300			_a87 sheets; _c31 cm. _eIncludes CD
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
502			_aThesis (MA) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research English Language and Literature Department
504			_aIncludes bibliography (sheets 84-87)
520			_aABSTRACT As a bearer and messenger of culture throughout the ages, literature is a pivotal starting point to study the ideologies within a society. In this research, a qualitative study will be conducted to show how works of literature embody patriarchal attitudes and practices in different societies. The primary emphasis of applying the feminist criticism to the chosen literary texts is to highlight the struggles of female characters. This research will apply the feminist literary theory to consider the women experience in two different novels: Wide Sargasso Sea by the Dominican-British author Jean Rhys and Damascus Bitter Sweet by Ulfat Idilbi, an Arabic translated novel, to draw connections and differences on the oppression female protagonists and other female characters undergo, the violence inflicted on them, and their methods of resistance to the patriarchy. In Western philosophy, the base of feminism is the certainty of an existence of gender inequality that views women as inferior to men. Therefore, this research also investigates power-based relations, gender discrimination and infringing women’s identity in a cross-cultural context. This aims to elaborate and compare how this gender inequality appear in two diverse literary works, exposing how literature can reflect human existence and values in different societies. The comparative analysis of both novels is supported by a comparative literature review that focuses on feminist ideas to foreground women’s arduous lives and records the struggle and abuse they’ve been through. It was found out that both patriarchal societies imposed limitations on the female protagonists according to the interrelated liberal, radical, and social ideas of feminism. Because of defying those limitations, the protagonists, Sabriya, and Antoinette, as well as other female characters, were marginalized, exploited, and disempowered, and they faced psychological, financial, and physical and sexual oppression to protect the power dynamics set by the patriarchy. Keywords: Damascus Bitter Sweet, Feminist Literary Theory, Gender roles, Oppression, Power dynamics, Resistance, Wide Sargasso Sea
630			_aWide Sargasso Sea _vDissertations, Academic
630			_aDamascus Bitter Sweet _vDissertations, Academic
650		0	_aFeminist literary criticism _vDissertations, Academic
650		0	_aFeminism and literature _vDissertations, Academic
700	1		_aMohammadzadeh, Behbood _esupervisor
700	1		_aAydınoğlu, Nazife _esupervisor
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