Modern Prose Works of Vietnamse Women Writers from the Perspective of Feminist Stylistics

Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality

Year: 2023

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Modern Prose Works of Vietnamse Women Writers from the Perspective of Feminist Stylistics

Ly Thi Phuong Tran, Thuy Nhat Tam Do

ABSTRACT: 

The feminist movement since its appearance has had a profound impact on all aspects of life, especially in the study of literature and language, leading to the birth of Feminist Stylistics. Feminist Stylistics has changed human perception related to the women writers’ issues in the areas of love, family, and sexuality through language issues and gender-relevant language. For modern Vietnamese literature, the expression of feminism in works is gaining increasing attention from researchers, particularly in prose works. “Feminism” is how contemporary female authors use to assert female voices through their creations. This paper employed the feminist stylistic framework of Sara Mills in determining the female characters as well as the identification of the author’s distinct writing style in the modern prose works of Vietnamese women. Through the analysis of selected prose works at two aspects of text creation and text reception, using the model provided by Sara Mills, this paper clarifies the rights of the female value in contemporary Vietnamese literature, thereby contributing to changing perceptions knowledge, and reality of society about gender equality in literature. Finally, the study reveals that sexism and gender stereotyping are found in the prose works, characteristic of the writing of a female author expressing herself as a woman living in a male-dominated society.

keywords: Feminist, prose works, male-dominated society, Vietnamse women writers, Sara Mills