Subverting Patriarchal Control through the Construction of Meaning in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

By Nikolas Oliver

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is the story of a woman who, while under patriarchal control, constructs and instills a meaning upon the environment around her, which allows her to subvert partially that control.

Issue VII, ArchivesContent EditorsApril 6, 2017power, relationships, expression, feminism, short story, symbolism, dynamicComment

Ormond’s Subversion of Heteronormative Gothic Characteristics

By Lindsay Brents

During his attempts to create American literature distinct from its European heritage, Charles Brockden Brown wrote Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness. Written and set in the 1790s in the United States, this novel establishes a recognizably Gothic plot, only to thwart the expected sexual violence by allowing the heroine to kill the man who threatens her.

Archives, Issue VIContent EditorsApril 11, 2016women, feminism, power, novel, sexuality, relationships, gender, heroismComment

Legitimizing Illegitimate Power

Megan Krelle

Technology is used to challenge the hegemonic ideal that the natural is of more value than the artificial. This prevailing valuation is explored through the examination of the societal power structure, which asserts the dominance of one group, and their ideals over any other, and the way that value is constructed and legitimized by the ruling center of the society in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and G. Willow Wilson’s Alif the Unseen.