Sketches of women: A post colonial feminist reading of Among the White Moon Faces

• Main Author: Go Kiao, Jenny A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1997
• Subjects: Women in literature; Feminist literary criticism; Feminism and literature; Nationalism and literature; Feminist theory
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/1547
• Institution: De La Salle University

History, with the influence of conquests and colonization has plotted women into different roles. This study tasks itself to pinpoint how history has plotted women through the colonization of patriarchy and imperialism. The first novel of Shirley Geok-lin Lim Among the White Moon Faces (1996) is analyzed as to how the woman character Shirley is plotted by the society, how she has plotted herself in the midst of patriarchal and imperialistic ideologies and how the reader plots Shirley in the context of post colonial feminism. Mexican post colonial theorist, Jean Franco is helpful in this study. Her historical approach in Plotting Women (1989), traces women's emancipation in Mexican society and shows how women are indeed plotted in the society. Her theory is used to see how patriarchy and imperialism plot the woman in the text and how the woman struggles and liberates herself from being colonized in the bondage of patriarchal and imperialistic ideals.