Marginalizing Women in Selected TwentiethCentury American Novels

This book analyzes and identifies the kinds of women characters' oppression in the modern American novel. The analysis is exercised in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Nella Larsen's Quicksand. These novels represent different kinds of oppression related to male violence, sexuality, production, culture, and racism. In these three novels, women are depicted as marginalized and oppressed by men.

Autorentext

Je m'appelle Khaled Amayreh. Je suis enseignant et j'aime mon travail. J'ai un fils et deux filles. Ce livre traite des problèmes des femmes qui sont quotidiennement opprimées, mentalement, physiquement et spirituellement, et qui sont considérées comme impuissantes et incapables de changer leurs conditions de vie. Elles constituent une majorité silencieuse dans le monde.

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This book analyzes and identifies the kinds of women characters' oppression in the modern American novel. The analysis is exercised in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Nella Larsen's Quicksand. These novels represent different kinds of oppression related to male violence, sexuality, production, culture, and racism. In these three novels, women are depicted as marginalized and oppressed by men.