@article{ART002808723},
author={Cao Kim Lan},
title={The Shifts of Power in Gender Discourse: Approaching Bao Ninh's Short Stories and Svetlana Alexievich's Unwomanly Face of War from Feminist Narratology},
journal={SUVANNABHUMI},
issn={2092-738X},
year={2022},
volume={14},
number={1},
pages={133-160},
doi={10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.133}

TY - JOUR
AU - Cao Kim Lan
TI - The Shifts of Power in Gender Discourse: Approaching Bao Ninh's Short Stories and Svetlana Alexievich's Unwomanly Face of War from Feminist Narratology
JO - SUVANNABHUMI
PY - 2022
VL - 14
IS - 1
PB - Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
SP - 133
EP - 160
SN - 2092-738X
AB - This paper examines narratives of women's marginal position in Bao Ninh's Short Stories and Svetlana Alexievich's Unwomanly Face of War from a feminist narratological approach. In analyzing voices of marginalized women, direct and indirect descriptions of women's beauty and pain, and private-public narratives of women's love stories, this paper aims to identify presentations of women's real authority in the text written by a male author, Bao Ninh, and in the one by a female author. The paper argues that juxtaposing these texts reveals an overturn of the traditional conception of sexual and gender differences. Specifically, distinguishing between male/female discourse does not show powerful /nonpowerful language, but recognizes the real authority of each type of discourse based on sexual differences. The writing also illustrates that masculine language becomes powerless and deficient in the women's world; meanwhile, in writing about herself, woman establishes a type of a powerful feminine discourse, which blends both emotional, enthusiastic, and gossipy characteristics of female language and direct, rational, and strong ones of male language. Thus, the feminists' radical segregation on male/female discourses to overturn masculine authority and create a language for women at par with men has been clearly shifted when comparing the two writers' texts based on the juxtapositional model of the comparative literature.
KW - Shifts of power;gender discourse;marginalized women;powerful/nonpowerful discourse;Svetlana Alexievich;Bao Ninh
DO - 10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.133
ER -

Cao Kim Lan. (2022). The Shifts of Power in Gender Discourse: Approaching Bao Ninh's Short Stories and Svetlana Alexievich's Unwomanly Face of War from Feminist Narratology. SUVANNABHUMI, 14(1), 133-160.

Cao Kim Lan. 2022, "The Shifts of Power in Gender Discourse: Approaching Bao Ninh's Short Stories and Svetlana Alexievich's Unwomanly Face of War from Feminist Narratology", SUVANNABHUMI, vol.14, no.1 pp.133-160. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.133

Cao Kim Lan "The Shifts of Power in Gender Discourse: Approaching Bao Ninh's Short Stories and Svetlana Alexievich's Unwomanly Face of War from Feminist Narratology" SUVANNABHUMI 14.1 pp.133-160 (2022) : 133.

Cao Kim Lan. The Shifts of Power in Gender Discourse: Approaching Bao Ninh's Short Stories and Svetlana Alexievich's Unwomanly Face of War from Feminist Narratology. 2022; 14(1), 133-160. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.133

Cao Kim Lan. "The Shifts of Power in Gender Discourse: Approaching Bao Ninh's Short Stories and Svetlana Alexievich's Unwomanly Face of War from Feminist Narratology" SUVANNABHUMI 14, no.1 (2022) : 133-160.doi: 10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.133

Cao Kim Lan. The Shifts of Power in Gender Discourse: Approaching Bao Ninh's Short Stories and Svetlana Alexievich's Unwomanly Face of War from Feminist Narratology. SUVANNABHUMI, 14(1), 133-160. doi: 10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.133

Cao Kim Lan. The Shifts of Power in Gender Discourse: Approaching Bao Ninh's Short Stories and Svetlana Alexievich's Unwomanly Face of War from Feminist Narratology. SUVANNABHUMI. 2022; 14(1) 133-160. doi: 10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.133

Cao Kim Lan. The Shifts of Power in Gender Discourse: Approaching Bao Ninh's Short Stories and Svetlana Alexievich's Unwomanly Face of War from Feminist Narratology. 2022; 14(1), 133-160. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.133

Cao Kim Lan. "The Shifts of Power in Gender Discourse: Approaching Bao Ninh's Short Stories and Svetlana Alexievich's Unwomanly Face of War from Feminist Narratology" SUVANNABHUMI 14, no.1 (2022) : 133-160.doi: 10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.133