Let’s Talk Story: Gender and the Narrative Self

Critical Horizons 15 (1):40-51 (2014)
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Through a critical reading of Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel, Woman Warrior, this paper addresses Amy Allen’s criticism that Seyla Benhabib’s conception of narrative agency involves the idea of a gender-neutral core self. Allen’s criticism of Benhabib is found wanting and the notion of an ungendered self is judged incoherent. Rather, gender is one of a number of markers at work in the open-ended narrative construction of identity.

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Normativity, Power, and Gender: Reply to Critics.Amy Allen - 2014 - Critical Horizons 15 (1):52-68.

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