Articulating the Female Subject: The Example of Marian Engel's Bear
M Fee - 1988 - open.library.ubc.ca
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Subject: Page 1 Atlantis Vol. 14 No. 1 Spring/printemps 1988 Articulating The Female Subject:
The Example of Marian Engel's Bear Margery Fee Queen's University " ABSTRACT The article
proposes to use fiction about women by women writers to investigate the nature of the
contemporary female subject. Lou, the heroine of Marian Engel's Bear, confronts the difficulties
that she has with male domination in an intense relationship with a tame bear. She imports the
categories of the patriarchy into this relationship, and, although she succeeds in solving some …
The Example of Marian Engel's Bear Margery Fee Queen's University " ABSTRACT The article
proposes to use fiction about women by women writers to investigate the nature of the
contemporary female subject. Lou, the heroine of Marian Engel's Bear, confronts the difficulties
that she has with male domination in an intense relationship with a tame bear. She imports the
categories of the patriarchy into this relationship, and, although she succeeds in solving some …
Abstract
Lou, the heroine of Marian Engel's Bear, attempts to confront the difficulties she has with male domination in a relationship with a semi-tame bear, but fails to resolve them because both female subjectivity and the patriarchy are socially constructed.
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