Critique ofMale Politics in Jostein Gaarder’sTheOrange Girl
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Abstract
This present research work is an analyticalstudyofthe male politics as gender
performativity inJosteinGaarder’sThe Orange Girl. It also traces the process by
which bothgeneration father and sonperspective shed and reconstructs the male
ideology.This research work investigates into the male ideology to hegemonize the
female bodyinwardly. Gaarder analyzes thefemale performanceas aesthetic beauty
and epistemological beauty at the same time, his con-trick way of expression is cross
generaand cross-generational view. Itattempts this throughoutlivesas Butlearian
notion of gender performativitywhichbrings the strategies of male ideologiesin the
novel. However, this gazing seems to be creative as objectify the female body outlives
itself in postmodern just like postmodern feeds from male ideology which proves the
harmonious relationship between gender performance and male politics
