Space and Resistance in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and Fatima Mernissi’s The Veil and the Male Elite (1991)
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Date
2018
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
This study aims to deal with the concept of space in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
and Fatima Mernissi’s collection of essays The Veil and the Male Elite (1991). To support my
research, I have relied on Jurgen Habermas’s theory of space The Structural Transformation
of the Public Sphere: an Inquiry into Category of Bourgeois Society (1989). I have dealt with
the authors’ biographies and the circumstances that influenced them to become writers. They
portrayed their female characters in struggle with the patriarchal society and different
conditions that deepened their distancing from the public sphere. I have also discussed the
way they raise the issue of private and public sphere in their works in the light of the
historical and literary context that influenced the writing of both Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and
The Veil and the Male Elite (1991). Finally, I have studied the private and public space in
both Woolf’s and Mernissi’s works. The affinities that gathered both authors is the
relationship between space and gender in the context of space theory and the way they
express their resistance.
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30Cm ; 54p.
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public, private, space, gender, patriarchal, society, resistance.
Citation
Littérature Comparée