Reading Beverley Farmer’s ‘A Man in the Laundrette’: Paradigms of Apprehension
Beverley Farmer’s ‘A Man in the Laundrette’ won almost immediate attention on two grounds: (p. 1) the argument it appears to advance espouses women’s independence in a male-powered world, and (p. 2) the metatextual strategy it uses permits the central woman character to write the story that the rea...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Beverley Farmer’s ‘A Man in the Laundrette’ won almost immediate attention on two grounds: (p. 1) the argument it appears to advance espouses women’s independence in a male-powered world, and (p. 2) the metatextual strategy it uses permits the central woman character to write the story that the reader is reading, which empowers her to write her male partner out of her life. These two characteristics of the story clearly constitute elements in the story, or ways into understanding the gendere... |
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