Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation

Rahimi Bahmany, Leila (2015): Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation. Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath. Leiden: Leiden University Press.

Abstract

Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated with the mirror and reflection in literature by women on the basis of the works of the Persian Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) and her American contemporary Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). These two poets astutely employed mirror images for the realization as well as for communication of their turbulent psycho-emotional states to their readers, thereby capturing and conveying the essence of women desperately trapped among the antithetical images of twentieth-century womanhood.

• Dokumententyp: Monographie
• Keywords: Persian Literature; Metaphor; Mirror; Specular Reflection; Narcissism; Sylvia Plath; Forugh Farrokhzad; Literary Feminism; Women´s Literature
• Fakultät: Kulturwissenschaften > Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde > Naher und Mittlerer Osten
• Themengebiete: 800 Literatur > 890 Andere Literaturen
• ISBN: 978 94 0060 207 6
• Ort: Leiden
• Sprache: Englisch