Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Motherhood in Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007)
This article aims to explore the representation of the female protagonist’s subjectivity and sexuality in Dinaw Mengestu’s novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007). This novel has been analyzed from other critical perspectives. However, a post-structural feminist analysis of this novel ca...
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| description | This article aims to explore the representation of the female protagonist’s subjectivity and sexuality in Dinaw Mengestu’s novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007). This novel has been analyzed from other critical perspectives. However, a post-structural feminist analysis of this novel can shed light on the female character’s subjectivity and sexuality, as well as our understanding of womanhood in general. The researchers discovered that the female character in the selected novel is modeled as a person who resists the exclusion of women from knowledge and power in a patriarchal society. She represents a new generation of women who struggle against the subjugation of women. Besides, she resists submissiveness to negative experiences in sexuality. In a nutshell, she is made visible through resilience. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4da4af1f34f74ad287bfda314daedad82025-01-16T04:20:18ZengSunan Ampel Press SurabayaNobel: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching2087-06982549-24702024-04-01151668410.15642/NOBEL.2024.15.1.66-84897Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Motherhood in Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007)Bekelech Truye0Olga Yazbec1Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaAddis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaThis article aims to explore the representation of the female protagonist’s subjectivity and sexuality in Dinaw Mengestu’s novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007). This novel has been analyzed from other critical perspectives. However, a post-structural feminist analysis of this novel can shed light on the female character’s subjectivity and sexuality, as well as our understanding of womanhood in general. The researchers discovered that the female character in the selected novel is modeled as a person who resists the exclusion of women from knowledge and power in a patriarchal society. She represents a new generation of women who struggle against the subjugation of women. Besides, she resists submissiveness to negative experiences in sexuality. In a nutshell, she is made visible through resilience.https://jurnalfahum.uinsa.ac.id/index.php/nobel/article/view/984diaspora literaturegendersubjectivitysexuality |
| spellingShingle | Bekelech Truye Olga Yazbec Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Motherhood in Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) Nobel: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching diaspora literature gender subjectivity sexuality |
| title | Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Motherhood in Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) |
| title_full | Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Motherhood in Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) |
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| title_short | Sexuality, Subjectivity, and Motherhood in Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) |
| title_sort | sexuality subjectivity and motherhood in mengestu s the beautiful things that heaven bears 2007 |
| topic | diaspora literature gender subjectivity sexuality |
| url | https://jurnalfahum.uinsa.ac.id/index.php/nobel/article/view/984 |
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