Feminine Narration: a Feminist Study of Dubliners by James Joyce

Abstract

This preliminary feminist study of Dubliners by James Joyce focuses on three female characters in three short stories by applying postfeminist criteria to explore their Other unique feminine narration which challenge and disrupt the conventional masculine cultural system. Following the notion of “the otherness”, these three women’s subjectivity, namely Eveline’s soliloquy narration, Maria’s narcissism narration and Mrs. Sinico’s spiritual narration, have been constructed through interpreting their detailed relevant descriptions in the text. As a result, to some extent, these kinds of narration, which present women’s marginalized modes of narration and differentiate incredibility, have constructed their own feminine narration, as well as, subverted and transcended the dominant