Feminism : Gayatri Spivak and Elaine Showalter.

Feminism : Gayatri Spivak and Elaine Showalter :

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Warmly welcome to my blog.  Here is my blog on Gayatri Spivak and Eline Showalter's views on feminism. This blog is provided by Professor Dilip Bard Sir.

Introduction :

Elaine Showalter : 

( 21 Jan. 1941)

Elaine Showalter is an American literary critic, feminist and writer on cultural and social issues. She is one of the founders of feminist literary criticism in academia in the United States and a term for developing the concept and study of gynecology, a term that "studies women as writers". Elaine Showalter specializes in Victorian literature and her most well-designed works in this field are madness and dementia in literature, especially in the writing of women and the portrayal of female characters in her writing. Elaine Showalter is an American critic best known for her concept of anti-gynecology, which is female-centric for her literary analysis.

Feminist Criticism : Elaine Showalter :

The views on feminist poetry are intelligent, often deprived of rhetorical manipulation, and confidently provocative. She calmly speaks with convincing authority, as if she firmly believes in the accuracy of what she says. She is both noble, in which she sees the urgent need to change, and the patient, in which she expects, if given enough time, will win the wisdom and truth of her cause. Showalter relates to feminist approaches to feminism that see feminist critics as 'obsessed with fallacy' and 'deluded to destroy male artists'. Showalter wonders whether such rituals derive from the fact that feminism lacks a fully articulated theory.

Showalter divides feminist criticism :

(1) The woman as Reader or feminist critique

(2) The woman as Writer or Gynocritics.

Gayatri Spivak : 

( 24 February 1942)

Gayatri Spivak uses Marxism, feminism and deconstruction, postmodernism and the methods of globalization. In a series of later essays, Spivak urges women to become involved in deconstruction and to interfere with the evolution of deconstructive theory. He also urged his colleagues to focus on the historical history of women. Her most famous piece was "Can the Subterranean Speak?". He realizes that silence can speak and give a voice to others. She sees people who treat and criticize women in India. She uses the notion of deconstruction.