Feminist consciousness in the short story “The useless boob” by Nguyen Thi Tu through some modern theories

Abstract

The short story “The Useless Boob” by Nguyen Thi Tu can be examined through narrative techniques informed by modern literary theories. This approach provides a basis for applying discourse theory to the study of overseas literature. Accordingly, this article analyzes the work from the perspective of discourse theory combined with integrated approaches in order to explore feminist consciousness. Descriptive, comparative, and data analysis methods play a central role in this study. The research findings are significant in both theoretical and practical terms. Theoretically, the article contributes to the study of overseas literary works on the foundation of discourse theory and demonstrates the application of discourse theory through integrated approaches. In addition, the study helps to identify and interpret feminist consciousness in overseas literary creations. Practically, the research results can serve as reference materials for research and teaching in Literature and Linguistics courses.