Addressing Rape Culture through Folktale Adaptation in Malaysian Young Adult Literature

IF 0.4 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Girlhood Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI:10.3167/GHS.2021.140110

S. Osman

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Rape culture is a provocative topic in Malaysia; the public discourse on it is plagued by gender stereotyping, sexism, misogyny, and rape myths. Recent literary works aimed at Malaysian adolescent girls have interrogated rape culture more pointedly as a means of addressing gender-based violence through activism and education. In this article, I discuss two short stories, “The Girl on the Mountain” and “Gamble” as retellings of Malaysian legends and feminist responses to the normalization and perpetuation of rape culture in this society. Through the emphasis on female agency, consent, and gender equality, these two stories reflect the subversive power of Malaysian young adult literature in dismantling rape culture, while affirming the significance of the folktale as an empowering tool for community engagement and feminist activism.

查看原文本刊更多论文

通过马来西亚青年文学中的民间故事改编来探讨强奸文化

强奸文化在马来西亚是一个具有挑衅性的话题;关于它的公共话语受到性别刻板印象、性别歧视、厌女症和强奸神话的困扰。最近针对马来西亚少女的文学作品更尖锐地质问强奸文化，将其作为通过行动主义和教育解决基于性别的暴力的一种手段。在这篇文章中，我讨论了两个短篇故事，《山上的女孩》和《甘布尔》，作为马来西亚传说的复述，以及女权主义者对这个社会中强奸文化的常态化和永久化的回应。这两个故事通过强调女性的能动性、同意和性别平等，反映了马来西亚青年文学在拆除强奸文化方面的颠覆力量，同时肯定了民间故事作为社区参与和女权主义活动的赋权工具的重要性。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Girlhood Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

1.10

自引率

12.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the critical discussion of girlhood from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and for the dissemination of current research and reflections on girls'' lives to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers, practitioners in the fields of education, social service and health care and policy makers. International and interdisciplinary in scope, it is committed to feminist, anti-discrimination, anti-oppression approaches and solicits manuscripts from a variety of disciplines. The mission of the journal is to bring together contributions from and initiate dialogue among perspectives ranging from medical and legal practice, ethnographic inquiry, philosophical reflection, historical investigations, literary, cultural and media research to curriculum design and policy-making. Topics addressed within the journal include girls and schooling, girls and feminism, girls and sexuality, girlhood in the context of Boyhood Studies, girls and new media and popular culture, representation of girls in different media, histories of girlhood, girls and development.