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A Feminist Study of Otherness in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and its Iranian Film Adaptation, "The Stranger"
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2016)
Movie adaptations of dramatic works have always been very popular. Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) has been adapted several times and in different ways. Feminist and gender studies have examined the ...
Freeing Vuyazi: Orality and Women’s Subjectivity in Paulina Chiziane’s Fiction
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2016)
Oral stories often maintain societal structures through the teaching of cultural norms. By bringing oral stories into her written text, Chiziane positions the elders as the resources of the village, the pillars, and the ...
The significance, for readers in the twenty-first century, of the character of Safie in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
(Cultural Association Littera Aperta, 2015)
This paper presents a critical look at one of the characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Safie, through the lenses of a female African scholar in the twenty-first century. A close look at the narrative structure leads ...