Male-female dialogu in Jean Toomer's Cane and Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls who have Considered suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf

Abstract

This paper examines literary writings as utterances with gendered implications. It uses Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic theory to explicate Toomer's Cane as a discourse that reflects the univocal nature of male critical theory and engages it in a discursive struggle with Shange's For Colored Girls…This is because feminist criticism has identified the need for women writers to engage in monologic approach to rationality in a dialogue, which should de-privilege the male voice.

Lwati: A Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 1 2004: 40-49