In the 1985 essay, “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism”, Gayatri Spivak shows the development of the white liberal feminist subject. Which of the texts referred to in the title is/are by a male author?
(1) The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
(2) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
(3) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
(4) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
(5) The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer :
A, B, and C only
Solution :
The correct answer is A, B, and C only.
In her influential 1985 essay, "Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism," feminist critic Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak analyzes the role of nineteenth-century literary texts in the construction of the white female individualist subject, pointing out how this subjectivity is built upon the exclusion and marginalization of the colonized subaltern ("other").
The three specific women���s texts that Spivak examines in her essay are:
1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (referred to as text B in the list)
2. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (referred to as text A in the list)
3. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (referred to as text C in the list)
Therefore, the three texts referred to in the title of Spivak's essay are represented by A, B, and C. Thus, the option group containing these three texts is "A, B, and C only".
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