Female Leadership through the Prism of Hypermodernity

Abstract

Self-esteem, individual accomplishment, instant response to social difficulties, and the rejection of alienating uniformity are some of the ideals that the hypermodern era claims as its own. Under that order of expansionist and excessive renewal, various fields of knowledge undergo an extraordinary mutation. The novels whose analysis falls to the current study appropriate that new order and enrich it in their own way by textualizing human societies or creating others from scratch in which voice is given to active female characters, who successfully disregard the old norms by inventing others, which trace the furrows of a paritary or egalitarian relationship, and which contributes, at the same time, to their economic independence and socio-cultural advancement. For example, Paule Marshall and Léonora’s imaginations are a crucible of extratextual and original values anchored in a plural leadership whose prevailing and common trend remains feminist. Considering the characteristics of that tendency, a number of convergent and divergent points whose aesthetic scope seems to have not hitherto been much studied, emerge. For this purpose, it is essential to elucidate it from a comparative perspective. But, to achieve this, it is appropriate to use the operational properties of hypermodernity in order to examine two "points-valeurs", inter alia, the construction of hypermodern characters’ identity, the reversals of hypermodernity and its "effet-idéologie".