Signs of Gender Clash Representation in Folktales

Since the dawn of history, folktales have been serving to pass didactic lessons to the audience to enlighten their mindset.However, this literary genre has started recently to lose its superficial role due to its inherent discursiveness in representing gender identity. Thus, the book in hand aims at scrutinizing the representation of gender dual dichotomy in folktales; this book is also written to provide the reader with a theoretical as well as an analytical insight on issues that concern gender as a social construct. To this very reason, a case study has been selected for exploring closely the various metaphorical aspects through which gender clash is depicted. For the critical study of this problematic theme, recourse to the feminist-based oppositional approach is suggested in this vein to fit into the requirements of our methodological analysis.

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El-hajjami Mouhcine is an M.A. student in Cultural Studies Master program at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University: Faculty of Arts and Humanities Fez Morocco 2011.The author is also A.B holder in Cultural Studies stream, a tutor of English extra classes, and a social activist having affiliations to national associations in charge of social works.