ANALYZING THE REPRESENTATION OF FEMININITY IN MONIQUE ROFFEY’S “THE MERMAID OF BLACK CONCH”

Authors

  • Sundus Nadeem,Tahira Jabeen,Humaira Hamid,Noor Fatima

Keywords:

Femininity, Postcolonial Feminism, Gender Identity, Coloniality, Transformation, Caribbean Literature, Monique Roffey

Abstract

The study uses critical feminist literaryanalysis to explore representations offemininity in Monique Roffey's "TheMermaid ofBlack Conch". Using postcolonial feminist theory and closereading, the work engages with how the protagonist’s transformative journey throughthis text upends patriarchal structures

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References

Aarons, John, Jeannette A Bastian, and Stanley Hazley Griffin. 2022.

Archiving Caribbean Identity: Routledge London.

Aguayo, Alexander. 2022. "(De) formations of the" I": Contemporary Black Women Poets of the Americas."

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Published

2025-01-15

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Sundus Nadeem,Tahira Jabeen,Humaira Hamid,Noor Fatima. (2025). ANALYZING THE REPRESENTATION OF FEMININITY IN MONIQUE ROFFEY’S “THE MERMAID OF BLACK CONCH” . Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 15(1), 761–777. Retrieved from https://pegegog.net/index.php/pegegog/article/view/5279

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025): PEGEGOG

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