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Representations Of Masculinity And Femininity In Miguel Street
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It has been said about V.S. Naipaul's novel Miguel Street that "One of
the recurrent themes... is the ideal of manliness" (Kelly 19). To help put into
focus what manliness is, it is important to establish a definition for
masculinity as well as its opposite, femininity. Masculin .... Middle of Paper .... to the opposite sex in which the women often act like men,
and the men often act like women. All of this will be discussed through looking
at both male and female characters in the book as well as the boy narrator of
the book.
Finding examples of manliness are found with great ease considering that
12 of the 17 stories in some way deal with the theme of manliness (Thieme 24).
It doesnt take long before the first example, a carpenter named Popo, is
introduced. In the chapter titled "The Thing Without A Name" we are told that
"Popo never mad ....
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