A Feminist Study of Katherine Anne Porter and Her Female Characters
This thesis mainly discusses the Southern American female writer Katherine Anne Porter and some of her short stories, in which female characters play a dominant role. Through a feminist study of her female characters, this thesis attempts to establish her position as an early feminist writer and ascertain her outstanding achievements in female writing. Besides her commonly acknowledged writing techniques, here the author would give prominence to her subject matters, which invariably focus on the conflicts between female illusions and the real, patriarchal world, their rebellion to the otherness imposed on their mind, and their self awareness which is often developed into a practical self-realization.
Through this article the author presents an experimental collage about the experiment of writing and its relation to the analogies of kinship—an enactment of folk phenomenology.