Re-conceptualizing the Exotic and Oppressed Latina: An Analysis of Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune
Latina women have generally been peripherized in Western academia and faminism as oppressed and disenfranchised but Isabel Allende in her novel Daughter of Fortune (1999) contests these Western notions by creating resilient and assertive female protagonist. Allende reconstructs the history of California Gold Rush by redefining the role of women from South America. Through this act she takes the role of a historian, an ethnographer and a storyteller by narrating the long forgotten role of women during these critical times and replaces the Western version of history. The selected novel tells the fictional account of the presence of Chilean women in California during the 1840s. The paper utilizes Linda Martin Alcoff’s feminist philosophy to analyze the fictional text.
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Stereotype, Oppressed, Resilient, Female, History
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(1) Amina Ghazanfar
Lecturer, Department of English UGS, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Fayaz Ahmad Kumar
Lecturer, Department of ELT, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA : Ghazanfar, A., & Kumar, F. A. (2021). Re-conceptualizing the Exotic and Oppressed Latina: An Analysis of Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune. Global Sociological Review, VI(II), 128-132. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-II).16
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CHICAGO : Ghazanfar, Amina, and Fayaz Ahmad Kumar. 2021. "Re-conceptualizing the Exotic and Oppressed Latina: An Analysis of Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune." Global Sociological Review, VI (II): 128-132 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-II).16
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HARVARD : GHAZANFAR, A. & KUMAR, F. A. 2021. Re-conceptualizing the Exotic and Oppressed Latina: An Analysis of Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune. Global Sociological Review, VI, 128-132.
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MHRA : Ghazanfar, Amina, and Fayaz Ahmad Kumar. 2021. "Re-conceptualizing the Exotic and Oppressed Latina: An Analysis of Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune." Global Sociological Review, VI: 128-132
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MLA : Ghazanfar, Amina, and Fayaz Ahmad Kumar. "Re-conceptualizing the Exotic and Oppressed Latina: An Analysis of Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune." Global Sociological Review, VI.II (2021): 128-132 Print.
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OXFORD : Ghazanfar, Amina and Kumar, Fayaz Ahmad (2021), "Re-conceptualizing the Exotic and Oppressed Latina: An Analysis of Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune", Global Sociological Review, VI (II), 128-132
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TURABIAN : Ghazanfar, Amina, and Fayaz Ahmad Kumar. "Re-conceptualizing the Exotic and Oppressed Latina: An Analysis of Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune." Global Sociological Review VI, no. II (2021): 128-132. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2021(VI-II).16