Wednesday, June 5, 2013

A Subgenre of Fiction

Yeah, it's fiction. But, it's so much more than that. Feminist fiction is more than just a pretend world written by an author. This literature is works created by women who are looking for a way to get past all the emotions of being trapped or held back by the social world. I believe that those that were written during the Victorian age up till the 1960's has character and morals that can address emotions that are common among the entire human race. That which is written in our modern day contains the same aspects, with strong woman characters. The main difference between the modern and the Victorian would be the text, involving whether it was women escaping a mental imprisonment or women appearing that they are better than the men within the story. These forms of literature talks about overcoming the traps and becoming more. Besides the fiction, there are nonfiction feminist writings that go into the personal feelings and experiences that the feminist women have gone through, which often sounds like more of a rant of hurt feelings than actual literature.

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  1. I like that you have examined the genre. I believe that comparing fiction to fiction and non-fiction to non-fiction across eras will be most useful (and the most fair). There was certainly "ranty" pre-20th-century non-fiction, although of course the style may seem elevated to us today.

    I hadn't even thought about this, but I would say that feminist fiction is sort of a dying genre. I can think of a lot more non-fiction than fiction. Sylvia Plath? Is she even a feminist? Is she that modern? Interesting questions.

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    1. Thank you for always commenting! You always give me a lot to think about.

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