Li Yang
College of International Languages and Cultures, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, Jiangsu, China.
*Corresponding author: Li Yang
Abstract
John Updike is viewed as a great man of letters who is superior to any other contemporary American author. In light of the present research on or about Updike, this paper chooses one of Updike’s novels Rabbit Redux (1971), and explores Updike’s feminist outlook by applying feminist literary theories. Rabbit Redux is found to be full of vivid depictions of various women and their feelings, through which Updike represents his sympathy for women. Janice's action of choosing to leave home is the very indication of the awakening of her female consciousness. This paper aims to analyze Janice Angstrom in the work based on the achievements of our predecessors and add a few valuable insights to a more comprehensive assessment of John Updike in the future. It also has a close look at the value shift that happened in the sixties by analyzing Janice from a Feminist perspective.
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How to cite this paper
A Feminist Study on Rabbit Redux by John Updike
How to cite this paper: Li Yang. (2024) A Feminist Study on Rabbit Redux by John Updike. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 8(9), 2074-2077.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2024.09.007