{"id":315,"date":"2026-05-29T12:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/?post_type=journal&#038;p=315"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:54:36","slug":"gothic-fiction-and-the-racist-binary-reevaluating-the-feminist-aspects-of-jane-eyre-from-a-postcolonial-lens","status":"publish","type":"journal","link":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/article\/gothic-fiction-and-the-racist-binary-reevaluating-the-feminist-aspects-of-jane-eyre-from-a-postcolonial-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Gothic Fiction and the Racist Binary: Reevaluating the Feminist Aspects of Jane Eyre from a Postcolonial Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This paper focuses on the manifestation of gothic elements in Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s <em>Jane Eyre<\/em> (1847), examines the connection between the gothic and the novel\u2019s feminism, and analyzes the author\u2019s use of women of \u201ccolor\u201d to induce horror\/terror and symbolize violence. Considering the details of the dark-skinned Bertha Mason and others contributing to the gothic theme of the novel, this research questions Bront\u00eb\u2019s stance on racism. To what extent is the gothic differentiated from the black-white binary in <em>Jane Eyre<\/em>? How essential is having a distinct idea and consciousness about the knowledge of other types of binaries when an author attempts to write a feminist text? A qualitative content analysis method follows Frantz Fanon\u2019s <em>Black Skin, White Mask <\/em>(1952), Edward Said\u2019s <em>Orientalism <\/em>(1978), and the Black feminist theory to review the justification of such a binary in advocating women\u2019s empowerment. The findings indicate that the racism in <em>Jane Eyre<\/em> is merely another kind of sexism. To sum up, the novel is an example of feminine resistance, only to women who share the whiteness of the protagonist, Jane, and it is not an ideal feminist text because of its discriminating and dehumanizing way of looking at people of color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article-category":[46,40,47],"class_list":["post-315","journal","type-journal","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article-category-current-issues","article-category-praxis","article-category-volume-15-december-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/journal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/journal\/315\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csg.ru.ac.bd\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}