1. MALAYSIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
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MALAYSIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

2. What’s the theme of the story?
Who is the protagonist?
Does she have a name? Why not?
How does the narrator describe the female character?
What’s the significant of reflecting her childhood especially about her sexual behavior?

3. “THE FAT WOMAN” BY DINA ZAMAN
Representations of women
What is dehumanization?
How is dehumanization demonstrated in the story?
What is the “male gaze?”

4. The male gaze is when a woman is put under male surveillance
The woman has becomes an object
No power to control the way she is categorized
Dehumanization means to subject women as an object which has no intellect or emotions

5. The protagonist is represented as an object
-– every parts of her body is described as ugly
The fact of objectifying through the “male gaze,” it involves “dehumanization”
-- Her physically/body is given attention to in terms of its ugliness or beauty
-- Her sexuality is questioned in terms of her being unattractive and reduced sexual desire