ABSTRACT
Many of the writers even believe in the ultimate truth of a spiritual life, if not filled with a traditional male God, at least with the spirits of their grandmothers. Both connectedness and spiritual life can be seen as modes of revolution when placed in the context of a life of isolation and physical brutality. Women must still deconstruct the patriarchal image of themselves as silent, submissive, and an object of pleasure or possession, but problems arise when people start to construct their own identity. The more voices that are ferreted out, the more discourses that a woman can find herself an intersection of, the freer she is from one dominating voice, from one stereotypical and sexist position. The male voices that forbid her to speak and demand that she be a good girl will be overthrown. The connection with women, even to the extent of sexual love between them, has a privileged place in the novel.
