Consequently, it becomes evident that Dilsey – female, the dark Other, enduring – is the pillar of strength for the Compson family, and using the theoretical perspective of Monique Wittig developing an effective critique of the Dilsey section comes to light that this chapter is the core of The Sound and The Fury. Monique Wittig, (1935 – 2003) French novelist, social theorist, poet, and professor in Women’s Studies and French at the University of... ... middle of paper ... ...man.” March 9, 2011
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tactics by which Edna attempts to establish a subjective identity.” (237) LeBlanc’s support for this analysis comes from a variety of sources including Adrienne Rich’s article “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience, Teresa de Lauretis’s, Monique Wittig’s and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s wor...
this medium was effective for the Wittig reactions involving various ylides without affecting the isomeric ratio. The improvement was more significant with aromatic and long-chain aldehydes that induced large hydrophobic effects. Consequently, water’s ability in stabilising the polar transition state and in reducing the energy of solvation through hydrophobic associations were suggested to cause the improved reaction rates and selective yields.10 In the aqueous Wittig reaction, a combination of other
Wittig reactions allow the generation of an alkene from the reaction between an aldehyde/ketone and a ylide (derived from phosphonium salt).The mechanism for the synthesis of trans-9-(2-phenylethenyl) anthracene first requires the formation of the phosphonium salt by the addition of triphenylphosphine and alkyl halide. The phosphonium halide is produced through the nucleophilic substitution of 1° and 2° alkyl halides and triphenylphosphine (the nucleophile and weak base) 4 An example is benzyltriphenylphosphonium
affects the E/Z ratio products of a Wittig reaction. Theory In a Wittig reaction, C=O is converted into C=C. The organophosphorus reagent or the phosphorus ylide is the nucleophile made of a positively charge phosphorus atom with three phenyl groups bonded to a negatively charge carbon atom. To form a ylide, a triphenylphosphine attacks a primary or secondary alkyl halide to form phosphonium salt which is deprotonated. To obtain the desired product in a Wittig reaction, the carbonyl compound is treated
Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried portrays the struggles of soldier’s in war. The novel ultimately is a way for the author to cope with death and keep the memories of his platoon alive. Susan Wittig Albert writes: “Storytelling is healing. As we reveal ourselves in story, we become aware of the continuing core of our lives under the fragmented surface of our experience. We become aware of the multifaceted, multichaptered ' I ' who is the storyteller. We can trace out the paradoxical and even
are not divided, thus gender is merely an imaginary realm. It only exist in the language exercises, and the way that cultural products are conceived in them. This essay is a preliminary attempt to offer an analysis of ‘One Is Not Born a Woman’ by Wittig and ‘The Second Sex’ by Simone De Beauvoir holds on the language usage contribution to the creation of genders and the imagined femininity. Through the society imaginations of genders, the society character can be depicted and captured in this imagery
feminism, as well as a reference to John Waters’ film Female Trouble starring the drag queen Divine. Gender Trouble discusses writings of numerous authors, including Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Monique Wittig, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault. According to Butler, concepts of sex, gender, gender roles, and sexuality, are “performances” that are defined by culture throughout history. The “performance” of gender is repeated over time and becomes
Judith Butler aims to identify the origins of gender as well as sex, while Techniques of Pleasure focuses on a duality between the real and the scene. The intersection of these writings is the duality between defined within readings and female social inequality. Butler’s theories from this book, which include gender performativity, have connections with the Techniques of Pleasure, which is seemingly unrelated to Gender Trouble, because it is an in depth writing about intersectionality in BDSM. Butler’s
(de Beauvoir, 34). Writing, first, a consideration upon a biological definition, she ends up rejecting the societal norm, for her own existentialist notion. This can be both compared and contrasted to the views of radical feminists, including Monique Wittig. The differences between such views directly affect the formulation of gender inequality and strategies correlated to feminism. A woman is an adult human female, so defined by the American Century Dictionary. There it is termed as a fact, nothing
intersectional lens. Intersectionality, the concept behind the intersectional lens, is an elaborate equation of one's intersecting traits. These intersecting traits are as follows: class, race, gender, sexuality, nationality and physical ability. Monique Wittig addresses how intersectionality
Before Amanda Conner’s and Jim Palmiotti’s Harley Quinn, Harley had a short—well, short for a comic book character—and successful career, appearing in television shows, Batman comics, her own lead comic, and as a lead in two different team comics. On September 11, 1992, Harley Quinn debuted as the Joker’s “hench-wench” on Batman: The Animated Series, created under the direction of Paul Dini and Bruce Timm. Arleen Sorkin, a main contributor to her continuation on the series, voiced the character
First, we have to investigate the validity of Womack’s argument and the effectiveness of his argument when he examines the theory of gender in Harjo’s poetry. In the gender and queer theory, feminist writers always concern about gender oppression. It means that one gender is privileged over another gender that is disadvantaged because of her or his gender. Different groups use their power to befit from other groups. This oppression and domination can be practiced in different sexes based on their
she now works in a male dominated field, suggesting that she largely identifies with male traits and role models. This might suggest that she desires to become a man, which, according to Monique Wittig in her essay “One Is Not Born a Woman,” “proves that she has escaped her initial programming” (105). However, Wittig goes on to say that, in refusing to be the societally programmed woman, “does not mean that one has to become a man” (105). Starling must then “[refuses]…the economic, ideological, and
From birth, one's sexuality is shaped by society. Cultures institute behaviors that are to be seen as the societal norms, which work to constantly reinforce societal expectations of how genders should act in relation to one another. Although some may argue that one's sexuality is an innate characteristic resulting from genetic makeup, there is a large amount of evidence pointing to its social construction instead. Through the power differences between males and females, established gender roles,
feminism seeks to change the unproportionate power which would ultimately lead to a more equally represented body of people. Feminism is a tool that can aid women in abolishing all the connotations that come with gender. In One Is Not Born A Woman, Monique Wittig argues that "To refuse to be a woman...does not mean that one has to become a man," to refuse to conform to the ideal images of women, and to break free from the social constraints, stereotypes, controlling images, expectations, and oppression