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Constructing Women’s Voices: Approaching Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and Bảo Ninh’s The Sorrow of War from Feminist Criticism

  • SUVANNABHUMI
  • Abbr : SVN
  • 2022, 14(1), pp.71-87
  • DOI : 10.22801/svn.2022.14.1.71
  • Publisher : Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Southeast Asia
  • Received : October 17, 2021
  • Accepted : January 15, 2022
  • Published : January 31, 2022

Đặng Thị Bích Hồng 1

1Hanoi National University of Education

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ABSTRACT

This article explores how women’s voices are constructed in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and Nỗi buồn chiến tranh (The Sorrow of War) by Bảo Ninh. Specifically, this article approaches presentations of women's personalities and positions in the two novels that do not have obvious historical and geographical connections. The women's voices in the two novels, as this article suggests, are characterized by women's desire for self-determination, where they are able to free themselves from domination, and even influence men's psychology and actions. In comparing the characteristics of women’s voices in the two works, the article aims to highlight different ways in which women assert their agency. The article affirms the potential contribution of cultural contexts in examining feminist voices and understanding how female figures are made to overcome default passivity and submission to male domination.

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