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WESTERN MEMOIR OF MARGINALITY A FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF EDUCATED 2018 BY TARA WESTOVER

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2020(V-I).05      10.31703/glr.2020(V-I).05      Published : Mar 2020

Western Memoir of Marginality: A Feminist Analysis of Educated (2018) by Tara Westover

Abstract

    Rethinking the gendered experiences of a Western female narrated in the memoir Educated (2018), this paper points out the contradictions between the theory and practice of gender equality in the West. De Beauvoir’s (1949) idea of female passivity and Butler’s (1999) challenge to the stability of the category ‘women’ are utilized together with the discursive strategies proposed by Van Dijk (2007) to conclude. through the use of actor description, situation description, hyperbole and distancing, for the feminist analysis of patriarchal influence on the female under the cover of paternity, whereby the female subject is conditioned to consider herself impure due to her gendered identity, sartorial practices and desire to be educated. On the contrary, the memoirist by employing the strategies of polarization and situation description shows that the female subject can only challenge the patriarchal dominance because of the changed consciousness that came out of the personal resistance to patriarchy

    Feminism, Critical Discourse Analysis, Patriarchy.

    (1) Aisha Jadoon
    Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, COMSATS,University Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Umaima Kamran
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Quaid-I-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (3) Mehwish Sarfraz
    Scholar, Department of Humanities, COMSATS,University Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    MLA : Jadoon, Aisha, Umaima Kamran, and Mehwish Sarfraz. "Western Memoir of Marginality: A Feminist Analysis of Educated (2018) by Tara Westover." Global Language Review, V.I (2020): 38-45 Print.

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    TURABIAN : Jadoon, Aisha, Umaima Kamran, and Mehwish Sarfraz. "Western Memoir of Marginality: A Feminist Analysis of Educated (2018) by Tara Westover." Global Language Review V, no. I (2020): 38-45. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2020(V-I).05