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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение. Журналистика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-9220</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-9247</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">35463</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-9220-2023-28-2-271-283</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">PNQBLT</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>LITERARY CRITICISM</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Литературоведение</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Challenging Eurocentric narratives: a postcolonial feminist analysis of the lives and experiences of Third World women</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вызов европоцентристским нарративам: постколониальный феминистский анализ жизни и опыта женщин третьего мира</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1448-7836</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Rather</surname><given-names>Nadeem Ahmad</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Разер</surname><given-names>Надим Ахмад</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Ph.D., research scholar, Department of Humanities &amp; Social Sciences</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор философии, научный сотрудник, отдел гуманитарных и социальных наук</p></bio><email>nadeem.rather@iitjammu.ac.in</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Indian Institute of Technology Jammu</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Индийский технологический институт Джамму</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2023-07-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>07</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>28</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 28, NO2 (2023)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 28, №2 (2023)</issue-title><fpage>271</fpage><lpage>283</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2023-07-20"><day>20</day><month>07</month><year>2023</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2023, Rather N.A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2023, Разер Н.А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Rather N.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Разер Н.А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/35463">https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/35463</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The ideas of Chandra Talpade Mohanty, a leading postcolonial feminist scholar, are explored. Attention is drawn to the criticism of Western feminist scholarship by postmodern and postcolonial feminists for its tendency to assume that the experiences of Third World women are universally and essentially same, ignoring the diversity and complexity of their lives. In an effort to better understand and give voice to the variety of experiences among Third World women, these feminists have sought to challenge misleading stereotypes that depict them as helpless, submissive, and oppressed. The importance of recognizing that the lives and experiences of Third World women are shaped by a multitude of factors, including cultural customs, language, history, education, family dynamics, societal values, religion, racial identity, social class, politics and economic status is emphasized. The novel Women at Point Zero is analyzed to illustrate how all these factors in combination play a role in defining the lives and experiences of Third World women. Through this analysis, Eurocentric narratives are challenged and their limitations are exposed. It is also shown how Firdaus, a character in the novel, opposes and subverts essentialist and stereotypical views of women from the global South as passive and oppressed.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Исследуются идеи Чандры Талпаде Моханти, ведущего постколониального ученого-феминистки. Обращается внимание на критику западной феминистской науки постмодернистскими и постколониальными феминистками за ее склонность предполагать, что опыт женщин третьего мира универсален и по существу одинаков, игнорируя разнообразие и сложность их жизни. Стремясь лучше понять и озвучить разнообразный опыт женщин третьего мира, эти феминистки стремились бросить вызов вводящим в заблуждение стереотипам, изображающим их беспомощными, покорными и угнетенными. Подчеркивается важность признания того, что жизнь и опыт женщин третьего мира формируются множеством факторов, включая культурные обычаи, язык, историю, образование, семейную динамику, социальные ценности, религию, расовую идентичность, социальный класс, политику и экономический статус. Проанализирован роман «Женщины в нулевой точке» с целью проиллюстрировать, как все эти факторы в совокупности играют роль в формировании жизни и опыта женщин третьего мира. Ставятся под сомнение европоцентристские нарративы и выявляются их недостатки, а также демонстрируется, как Фирдаус, главная героиня романа, бросает вызов и ниспровергает эссенциалистские и стереотипные представления о женщинах глобального Юга как о пассивных и угнетенных.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>postmodern feminism</kwd><kwd>essentialism</kwd><kwd>stereotyping</kwd><kwd>intersectionality</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>постмодернистский феминизм</kwd><kwd>эссенциализм</kwd><kwd>стереотипизация</kwd><kwd>интерсекциональность</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Abu-Lughod, L. (2002). Do Muslim women really need saving? Anthropological reflections on cultural relativism and its others. American Anthropologist, 104(3), 783-90, http://doi.org/10.1525/aa.2002.104.3.783</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Althaus, F.A. 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