“WIDE SARGASSO SEA” AND “KECHA VA KUNDUZ” AS RESISTANCE NARRATIVES WITHIN PATRIARCHAL POWER STRUCTURES

Authors

  • abdurauf abdurauf Nordic International University
  • Dilshod Nasriddinov Nordic International University

Abstract

This article compares the novels of “Wide Sargasso Sea” and “Day and Night” as against patriarchal supremacy. Both novels portray female protagonists defying oppressive social structures and male authority. The article explores female protagonists' resistance to oppression through voice, psychological struggle and identity, revealing literature as a space of gender resistance.

References

1. Aliyev, A. (2021). Comparative Feminist Literary Studies. Tashkent State University Press.

2. Brown, E. (2016). Narrative Voice and Power in Modern Fiction. Routledge.

3. Cappello, S. (2009). Postcolonial discourse in Wide Sargasso Sea: Creole discourse vs. European discourse. Journal of Caribbean Literatures, 6(1), 47–54.

4. Cho'lpon, A. (2019). Night and day (C. Fort, Trans.). Academic Studies Press.

5. Dhaulagiri Journal of Contemporary Issues, 1(1), 61–67.)

6. Jean Rhys. (1966). Wide Sargasso Sea. W.W. Norton &Company

7. Johnson, R. (2017). Silence as Resistance in Feminist Narratives. Feminist Literary Studies, 9 (1), 22-38.

8. Karimov, B. (2019). O‘zbek adabiyotida ayol obrazi talqini. O‘zbek tili va adabiyoti jurnali, 3, 45-52.

9. Sharma, S. P. (2023). Female subjugation and resistance in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea.

10. Simone de Beauvoir. (1949). The Second Sex.

11. Smith, J. (2020). المرأة and Identity in Caribbean Literature. Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 12 (2), 45-60

12. Thomas, L. (2018). Postcolonial Feminist Readings of Rhys. Palgrave Macmillan.

Published

2026-04-22

Most read articles by the same author(s)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > >>