Novelists, poets, and dramatists, within the African American literary tradition, have explored and examined the complicated nature of the relationships between black men and black women. Many have depicted interactions characterized by scorn and hatred while others have focused on amorous relationships imbued with deep love and affection. Yet Morrison employs the kind of 'womanist' insight and believes that the relationships between African American men and African American women must be understood
verified by exact observation, organized experiment and ordered thinking. Science probes into numerous subjects: fusion power, embryo research, complex and fatal diseases, habits of animals, congenital defects, space explorations, remote sensing, analysis of the
Gender, as a social construct, refers to “a set of qualities and behaviours expected from males and females by society, which are socially constructed and subject to change” ( A gender analysis of the educational achievement of boys and girls in the Jamaican educational system, 2005). The implication of gender inequality is that means that males and females men and women do not have the same worth nor equal rights, responsibilities, access
She is married off to Hemant, a rich bureaucrat living in the posh colony of Delhi. In quick succession, she fulfils her responsibility of producing a daughter and a son for the family. She had everything in life, but she was frustrated. Hemant had an inherent inability to respect her as an equal and felt that she should be the stay-at-home wife and mother. When she took up the job of a school teacher she felt “the
The Gothic is the study of the otherness; the unseen. It disturbs us as it is associated with anxiety, chaos, darkness, the grotesque and evokes images of death, destruction and decay. (Steele, 1997)According to Catherine Spooner in ‘Contemporary Gothic’ 2006, “The Gothic lurks in all sorts of unexpected corners.” It is incredibly broad - superstitions, the uncanny, the monstrous, the forgotten past, the Gothic feminine - to name but a few are all elements which combine to form this theme. The Gothic
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and