The Feminine in ernest Hemingway’s War Novel
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2020
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Oum-El-Bouaghi
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Hemingway is one of the novelists who showed an anti-women attitude in most of his work. In the case of this research, considering For Whom the Bell Tolls as the exception of Hemingway. This dissertation focuses on the analysis of the feminine identity during war, and examines the impact of war on women in different aspects, physically, psychologically, and ideologically. In addition to that, it examines the way women challenge gender binaries. Psychoanalysis stands at the heart of the research approaches adopted in this dissertation which includes psychoanalytic feminism, besides the use of the patriarchal and the matriarchal ideologies. This research shows the true image of Hemingway's fictional heroines. Depicting them as females who did not just serve males, they were part of the war despite of all the challenges and difficulties that they faced. Finally, our reading of the novel in question investigates how the way female characters are depicted is empowering to women in the patriarchal world they live in.
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Masculinity, Psychoanalytic feminism, Psychoanalysis, Femininity