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标题：Thus Spake the Body: Delineating Social, Cultural and Linguistic ‘Othering’ in the Indian Adaptation of Eve Ensler’s Monologues
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作者：Anum Fatima ; Ariba Zainab
期刊名称：Lapis Lazuli : an International Literary Journal
电子版ISSN：2249-4529
出版年度：2017
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：189
出版社：Pinter Society of India
摘要：Women are taught how to detach themselves from their bodies. This is discussed by Judith Butler in her book ‘Gender Trouble’ (1990). She discusses how the concepts of gender - male and female, or, masculine and feminine are placed according to Foucault’s power matrix. She points out how the heterosexual dynamics outcaste or ‘other’ different social or sexual dispositions. Eve Ensler’s ‘The Vagina Monologue’ (1996) was an attempt to highlight that such power-matrix works within the heterosexual society as well- marginalizing women and their bodies. The paper discusses how the Indian audience reacted to a body-part that is, the Vagina , when it was discussed , it made the misogynist angry and women empowered. These monologues lay bare the prominence of one’s identity and an acceptance of it in its entirety. In this study, our purpose is to extract how the adaptation aforementioned in India is different, why it is different and how this change has contributed in the development of l’ecriture feminine in Third-World countries.
关键词：bodies; language; power-matrix; marginalize; vagina; identity; feminism; le’criture feminine; adaptation; third world countries.