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A Psychological Study of Margaret Drabble’s The Red Queen (2004)

Received: 24 January 2014     Published: 20 February 2014
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Abstract

This study is about the psychological problems of women in contemporary society as illustrated in Margaret Drabble’s selected novels. Judith Butler’s gender and performativity theory will help us to understand psychological problems of women in a better way. Moreover, the postulates of Butler’s gender performory help women to come out of their psychological problems. For this purpose, we have selected Drabble’s the Red Queen (2004). This study leads us to the conclusion that women are stressed and depressed because of performative norms that are assigned to them by culture and society.

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 2, Issue 1)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijla.20140201.15
Page(s) 24-28
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Keywords

Judith Butler, Gender, Performativity, Margaret Drabble’s Novels, Psychological Problems

References
[1] Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 1997. Print.
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[3] ---. The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection. California: Stanford University Press, 1997. Print.
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[5] ---. Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, 2004.
[6] De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. Trans. H.M. Parshley. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984. Print.
[7] Drabble, Margaret. The Red Queen. London: Viking, 2004. Print.
[8] Frankova, Milada. "The Red Queen: Margaret Drabble’s (Auto) Biographical
[9] Jagger, Gill. Judith Butler: Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 2008. Print.
[10] Lipps. H. M. Women, Men and Power. CA: Mayfield, 1991. Print.
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  • Department of English, Punjabi University, Patiala, INDIA

  • Department of Distance Education, Punjabi University, Patiala, INDIA

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