Title: Korean women’s struggle against oppression incolonial and postcolonial era in mary bracht”s white chrysanthemum
Abstract:This thesis is about the portrait of Korean women as found in Mary Bracht’s White
Chrysanthemum. Related to the third world feminist, the purpose of the study is to
analyse the portrayal of third wo...This thesis is about the portrait of Korean women as found in Mary Bracht’s White
Chrysanthemum. Related to the third world feminist, the purpose of the study is to
analyse the portrayal of third world women reflected by Korean women in the novel.
The other purpose is to discover Korean women’s struggle against oppression. The
writer uses Mohanty’s decolonizing feminism theory which discuss third world
women as category of analysis. In order to discover those purposes, qualitative
research method is used for this study. The results show that Korean women in the
novel portrayed as victim of male violence, dependent, victim of colonial process
and has different perspectives in development process. However, Korean women do
struggle against oppression by building self-determination and resistance. Through
this literary evidence, third world feminism puts forward the struggle of women to
escape from gender injustices they experienced when colonialism practice occurs in
Korea has affected social and political aspects of the country.Read More
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-01-01
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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