Patterns of Female Entrapment and Escape in Three Short Stories by Amparo Dávila
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In The Madwoman in the Attic, an innovative work of feminist literary criticism, the authors (Gilbert and Gubar) discuss the struggle of British and American women writers whose dilemma consisted of finding a way to express themselves within the oppressive confines of nineteenth-century patriarchal society without compromising themselves as women or as artists.1 Over and over, writers such as the Bronte' sisters, George Eliot, Jane Austen, and Emily Dickinson channeled rage and frustration into the creation of dramatic female characters who functioned as the authors' doubles. Because of the lack of female role models, their struggle in isolation often felt like illness and madness and thus led to the use of images of entrapment to convey their message:
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In The Madwoman in the Attic, an innovative work of feminist literary criticism, the authors (Gilbert and Gubar) discuss the struggle of British and American women writers whose dilemma consisted of finding a way to express themselves within the oppressive confines of nineteenth-century patriarchal society without compromising themselves as women or as artists.1 Over and over, writers such as the Bronte' sisters, George Eliot, Jane Austen, and Emily Dickinson channeled rage and frustration into the creation of dramatic female characters who functioned as the authors' doubles. Because of the lack of female role models, their struggle in isolation often felt like illness and madness and thus led to the use of images of entrapment to convey their message:
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