Nihilation of femininity in the battle of looks: a Sartrean reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s “A temporary matter”

The panoptic gaze is vested in with a constitutive impact upon the subjectivity of individuals. Feminist scholars like Luce Irigaray have charged that the metaphor of vision is intimately connected with the construction of gender and sexual difference. By pointing to the masculine logic of Wester...

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Main Authors: Asl, Moussa Pourya, Hull, Simon Peter, Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah,
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10153/1/10312-38509-1-PB.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10153/
http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/801
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