Název: The diversity of gender and feminist issues in Cynthia Flood's "My Father Took a Cake to France"
Zdrojový dokument: Variations on community: the Canadian space. Otrísalová, Lucia (editor); Martonyi, Éva (editor). 1st edition Brno: Masaryk University, 2013, pp. 161-171
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161-171
Trvalý odkaz (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.81408
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Článek
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anglicky
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otevřený přístup
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Popis
The title story of Cynthia Flood's collection My Father Took a Cake to France (1992) won the Journey Prize for fiction in 1990 and was judged the best Canadian short story in that year. This paper represents a critical reading of this short story from the point of view of gender studies in general and feminism in particular. Flood exposes and indirectly criticizes the traditional, socially prescribed female and male roles in the predominantly patriarchal society through the sets of binary oppositions that are reinforced in the story (past/present, England/Canada, her father's detached scholarly manner/ her mother's genuine love and compassion). The idea that brings all these sets of binary oppositions in the story together is Flood's never-ending quest for the definition of Canadian female identity. The paper also attempts at demonstrating that Flood's standpoint is much closer to the French than to the Anglo-American feminist school since Flood regards her literary themes as universal and humanist and not just female or male oriented.
L'histoire principale de la collection Mon père emporta un gâteau en France de Flood (1992) a gagné le « Journey Prize » pour fiction en 1990, et elle était appréciée pour la meilleure nouvelle canadienne cette année-là. Cet article représente la lecteure critique de cette nouvelle du point de vue des études de genre en général et le féminisme en particulier. Flood, en fait, expose et critique indirectement les rôles féminins et masculins qui sont traditionnels et socialement prescrits dans la société principalement patriarcale travers les ensembles d'oppositions binaires qui sont renforcés dans l'histoire (passé / présent, Angleterre / Canada, une manière détachée et érudite de son père/ l'amour et la compassion véritable de sa mère) L'idée qui réunit tous ces ensembles d'oppositions binaires dans l'histoire est la quête incessante de Flood pour la définition de l'identité des femmes canadiennes. L'article tente également à démontrer que le point de vue de Flood est beaucoup plus proche de l'école français que de l'école anglo-américaine féministe puisque elle considère ses thèmes littéraires comme universel et humaniste, et pas seulement féminine ou masculine orientée.
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