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Pretty, Petite, Polite Dawn

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This article studies gender roles in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral, published in 1997. It addresses the housewife condition in 1960s America through the character of Dawn Dwyer, drawing from Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, and the second edition of Silvia Federici’s Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle, published in 2020. Moreover, it analyses how American history is told and fictionalized in Roth’s work, comparing the scenes from the novel to Friedan’s non-fiction narrative of the 1960s. This analysis builds on previous works on gender roles in Roth’s literature, aiming to contribute to the body of literature on the American celebrated author.

Source: Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT)

Author: , Diogo Oliveira

Language: English

Topic: American Jewish Fiction Analysis

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7042480526

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