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Male-female dialogu in Jean Toomer's <i>Cane</i> and Ntozake Shange's <i>For Colored Girls who have Considered suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf</i>
Abstract
This paper examines literary writings as utterances with gendered implications. It uses Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic theory to explicate Toomer's Cane as a discourse that reflects the univocal nature of male critical theory and engages it in a discursive struggle with Shange's For Colored Girls…This is because feminist criticism has identified the need for women writers to engage in monologic approach to rationality in a dialogue, which should de-privilege the male voice.
Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 1 2004: 40-49
Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 1 2004: 40-49