Feminist sensibility in The God of Small Things, Seven Steps in the Sky, Inheritance of Loss and Second Thoughts: A Comparative Study
Keywords:
Feminism, Feminist Sensibility, Comparative, NarrativeAbstract
It is human nature to compare and choose. Instinctually, sapience, since time immemorial, chooses better options. However, such instinct has gifted the entire race the word called „exp erience'. Man learns almost everything by experience. The comparison is therefore inseparable part of human existence. Comparison, in routine, was recurrent; however, to study the method and techniques of comparison are products of modern knowledge. Many discourses use various comparative methods to check their hypothesis. In the present research, comparative would be used not to choose the best but to check „what', „why' and „how' of feminism. Women writers would be studied thoroughly in orders to find out and analyze recurrent feminist waves to support their literary productions better.
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