The female subject: Portrayal by male authors in the 20th century
Date of Publication
2016
Document Type
Bachelor's Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts in Literature
Subject Categories
Comparative Literature
College
College of Liberal Arts
Department/Unit
Literature
Thesis Adviser
Carla M. Pacis
Defense Panel Member
Genevieve Asenjo
Kim Bryan Lira
Jeremy De Chavez
Abstract/Summary
The study analyzes the portrayal of female characters in a selected short story written by eight male writers who were born in the 20th century. The stories to be studied are: N.V.M. Gonzalez's The blue skull and the dark palms , Nick Joaquin's The summer solstice , Cameo by Jose Y. Dalisay, Jr., Woman of Am-Kaw by Charlson Ong, Dean Francis Alfar's The kite of stars , Luis Joaquin M. Katigbak's Kara's place , The painted lady by Ian Rosales Casocot, and Everybody gets off at Cubao by Carljoe Javier. The stories Cameo , The painted lady , and Everybody gets off at Cubao have male narrators describing their experiences with the female character, while the other stories have the narrator not actively participating in the narrative, with exceptions in Woman of Am-Kaw and Kara's place .
The following concepts are used to analyze how these female characters are portrayed in their respective stories: subjectivity from post-structuralism, the male gaze, and the angel and monster image from Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's The madwoman in the attic: the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination (1979). The main female characters are the subject, and the study calls into view how they are addressed within their respective narratives, as well as show the images that are used to contain and describe them. The study shows that there have been minimal changes to these portrayals of the female subject, despite the passage of time. Despite being born after at least three generations afte the oldest writer selected, the youngest writer selected-- Carljoe Javier-- as well as the younger writers have not completely departed from the angel images used by the older writers in their respective stories.
Abstract Format
html
Language
English
Format
Accession Number
TU19732
Shelf Location
Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall
Physical Description
54 leaves ; 28 cm.
Keywords
Women in literature
Recommended Citation
Guatno, L. (2016). The female subject: Portrayal by male authors in the 20th century. Retrieved from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/2807
