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    Citation Count: Güvenç, Özge (2016). "SUBVERSION OF THE BINARIES BASED ON CLASS AND GENDER IN KATHERINE MANSFIELD'S "THE GARDEN PARTY", Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 231-240.
    SUBVERSION OF THE BINARIES BASED ON CLASS AND GENDER IN KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S “THE GARDEN PARTY"
    (2016) Güvenç, Özge; 18329; Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen - Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı
    Katherine Mansfield’s contribution to the development of short story genre in English literature is based on her use of narrative techniques, especially that of focalization. In her short story “The Garden Party” which recounts the story of the upper-class Sheridan family’s garden party preparations, Mansfield challenges issues related to class and gender from the main character Laura’s focalisation. In this initiation story, Laura starts questioning the roles attributed to an upper-class woman right after she meets the workers who come to make the preparations for the party. Her dilemma about her class comes to a climactic point when she learns the death of a working class neighbour, Mr. Scott, and visits his funeral home. Through the juxtaposition of these two classes from the viewpoint of a female adolescent, Mansfield not only criticises the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie, but also roles expected from a woman. The aim of this article, then, is to discuss Mansfield’s “The Garden Party” with respect to the theory of deconstruction to show how the writer problematizes logocentrism by subverting the binary oppositions based on class and gender.