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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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 |