Exploring the Evolution of the Feminist narrative in A Doll's House and Barbie 2023: A Speculative Realism Perspective
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This paper attempts to read familiar texts with a new perspective. Speculative Realism is employed as an inspiration to extend viewpoints of feminism. Speculative Realism is a philosophical movement that emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century to extend our viewpoints beyond the operation of correlationism. Quentin Meillassoux defined correlationism as a system of understanding the world through the correlation between being and thought. The evil of correlationism lies in its confinement of knowledge and understanding to the realm of human perception and thought, effectively trapping reality within the confines of human subjectivity. This essay will argue that feminism has been trapped in a mode of correlationism by failing to encompass various realities of women in its package. To analyze the reality of women in general, Henrik Ibsen's Nora in A Doll's House (1879) will be summoned together with Mattel's iconic doll Barbie in a movie, Barbie 2023. Nora and Barbie are fictional and symbolic women in the socio-cultural context. With some notions of speculative realists, Barbie and Nora will be interrogated to suggest a way out of the myriad of deconstruction, binarism, and other discourses which are attached to feminism.
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This paper attempts to read familiar texts with a new perspective. Speculative Realism is employed as an inspiration to extend viewpoints of feminism. Speculative Realism is a philosophical movement that emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century to extend our viewpoints beyond the operation of correlationism. Quentin Meillassoux defined correlationism as a system of understanding the world through the correlation between being and thought. The evil of correlationism lies in its confinement of knowledge and understanding to the realm of human perception and thought, effectively trapping reality within the confines of human subjectivity. This essay will argue that feminism has been trapped in a mode of correlationism by failing to encompass various realities of women in its package. To analyze the reality of women in general, Henrik Ibsen's Nora in A Doll's House (1879) will be summoned together with Mattel's iconic doll Barbie in a movie, Barbie 2023. Nora and Barbie are fictional and symbolic women in the socio-cultural context. With some notions of speculative realists, Barbie and Nora will be interrogated to suggest a way out of the myriad of deconstruction, binarism, and other discourses which are attached to feminism.
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