... it might include works by lesbians, feminists, and women writers in general. According to Elaine Showalter (in 20th Century Literary Theory, p. 216 - 220)3, gynocriticism is concerned with "woman as the producer of textual meaning, with the history, themes, genres, and structures of literature by women. Its subjects include the psychodynamics of female creativity; linguistics and the problem ... of a female language; the trajectory of the individual or collective female literary career; literary history; and, of course, studies of particular writers and works." Logocentrism ... lives an...

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... of view of showing the width and the diversity of this field. However, one issue seems to outstand from the topics of post-colonialism with its importance and influence on literary theory and it is the issue of feminism. Feminist theory and post-colonial theory have much in common; women and the colonised races and cultures both share the politics of ... standard use of the English language is violated in this process which seems to counterbalance "the cultural and economic violence perpetrated by the colonizer" (256). Katrak continues with enumarating the themes and content of women writ...

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