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Authors: ELISABETA SIMONA CATANĂ.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2017.1.02
Published Online: 2017-03-24
Published Print: 2017-03-31
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The Voices of Gender Reconstructing History in Doris Lessing’s The Cleft. This essay analyses Doris Lessing’s vision upon history as a postmodernist story written from a masculine and from a feminine perspective according to the narrators’ specific gender. It shows that the voices of gender lay the groundwork for subjective, gender-biased discourses on the history of gender relations, on the evolution of the male-female relationships in time. The capacity of gender to influence the protagonists’ vision upon history as well as the development of their cognitive and linguistic abilities will be focused on in this essay.
Keywords: gender, voices, the feminine principle, the masculine principle, history, story, language competency, sexuality, vision.
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