CONFLICTING ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE PORTRAYAL OF WOMAN IN ON THE ROAD AND TROIA: MEXICAN MEMOIRS

Number: 25 September 1, 2016
  • Sıla Selçuk Kurtuluş
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CONFLICTING ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE PORTRAYAL OF WOMAN IN ON THE ROAD AND TROIA: MEXICAN MEMOIRS

Abstract

Jack Kerouac and Brenda Frazer are two Beat generation writers longing for the lives far away from suppressed thoughts of society. They both seek freedom, experience by being on the road and choosing different lives. However, while looking for experience, these two writers own disparate points of view and contradictory attitudes towards women. Throughout Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Brenda Frazer’s Troia, it can be grasped that depiction of women undergoes a change according to the view of man and woman. The ideas comprising women’s passivity and their being perceived as a sex object in On the Road clash with the notion of women’s activity and sexuality in Troia. This paper aims at comparing these two memoirs within the frame of women’s portrait. Handling of women depiction in these memoirs in a different way is the focal point of this paper.

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September 1, 2016

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September 1, 2016

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Year 2016 Number: 25

APA
Kurtuluş, S. S. (2016). ON THE ROAD VE TROIA: MEXICAN MEMOIRS ’DA KADIN PORTRESINE KARŞI ÇELİŞEN TUTUMLAR. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 25, 306-314. https://izlik.org/JA35MG75TA
AMA
1.Kurtuluş SS. ON THE ROAD VE TROIA: MEXICAN MEMOIRS ’DA KADIN PORTRESINE KARŞI ÇELİŞEN TUTUMLAR. PAUSBED. 2016;(25):306-314. https://izlik.org/JA35MG75TA
Chicago
Kurtuluş, Sıla Selçuk. 2016. “ON THE ROAD VE TROIA: MEXICAN MEMOIRS ’DA KADIN PORTRESINE KARŞI ÇELİŞEN TUTUMLAR”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, nos. 25: 306-14. https://izlik.org/JA35MG75TA.
EndNote
Kurtuluş SS (September 1, 2016) ON THE ROAD VE TROIA: MEXICAN MEMOIRS ’DA KADIN PORTRESINE KARŞI ÇELİŞEN TUTUMLAR. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 25 306–314.
IEEE
[1]S. S. Kurtuluş, “ON THE ROAD VE TROIA: MEXICAN MEMOIRS ’DA KADIN PORTRESINE KARŞI ÇELİŞEN TUTUMLAR”, PAUSBED, no. 25, pp. 306–314, Sept. 2016, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA35MG75TA
ISNAD
Kurtuluş, Sıla Selçuk. “ON THE ROAD VE TROIA: MEXICAN MEMOIRS ’DA KADIN PORTRESINE KARŞI ÇELİŞEN TUTUMLAR”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 25 (September 1, 2016): 306-314. https://izlik.org/JA35MG75TA.
JAMA
1.Kurtuluş SS. ON THE ROAD VE TROIA: MEXICAN MEMOIRS ’DA KADIN PORTRESINE KARŞI ÇELİŞEN TUTUMLAR. PAUSBED. 2016;:306–314.
MLA
Kurtuluş, Sıla Selçuk. “ON THE ROAD VE TROIA: MEXICAN MEMOIRS ’DA KADIN PORTRESINE KARŞI ÇELİŞEN TUTUMLAR”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, no. 25, Sept. 2016, pp. 306-14, https://izlik.org/JA35MG75TA.
Vancouver
1.Sıla Selçuk Kurtuluş. ON THE ROAD VE TROIA: MEXICAN MEMOIRS ’DA KADIN PORTRESINE KARŞI ÇELİŞEN TUTUMLAR. PAUSBED [Internet]. 2016 Sep. 1;(25):306-14. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA35MG75TA
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