The Earth, the Pillar and the Stone: Does Testing the Female Mean Empowering the Female in Valmiki’s Ramayana, Shakespeare’s the Winter’s Tale and the Turkish Tale Sitti Nusret?

• Authors: Adriana Raducanu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This chapter discusses three memorable female characters: Sita from Valmiki’s Ramayana, Hermione from Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Sitti Nusret from the eponymous Turkish fairytale. It will focus on the universality of the many trials that the characters have to undergo, in order to prove their innocence, chastity and capacity to endure, both in front of their male counterparts and society at large.

Keywords

EN

female; gender; individuation; trials

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: Supplement
• Pages: 35-54

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2012-12-28

Contributors

author

Adriana Raducanu

• Yeditepe University 26 Agustos Yerlesimi, Kayisdagi Cad. 34755, Atasehir/ Istanbul, Turkey

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10320-012-0004-y