Encoding the Personal: Carol Ann Duffy’s Use of Adopted Voices as a Veneer to Female Subjectivity
Keywords:
masculinity, male gaze, dramatic monologue, femininity, sexismAbstract
Each process of reading involves a process of writing or rewriting the original text. One of the major concerns in feminist theories and practices has been centered around exploring the possibilities of a rewriting of patriarchal norms. This study tries to analyze the use of dramatic monologue as a means to masquerade womanliness in the poems of Carol Ann Duffy. The attempt here is to identify and establish the extent to which the adopted voice in the personae of a given speaker in the poems of Carol Ann Duffy is in fact acting as a veneer to her subjectivity as a female and how this veneer is employed as a means to encode the self.
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