AUTHOR'S GENDER POSITION AND NARRATION IN THE CREATION OF A FEMALE IMAGE

Abstract

This article presents a comparative analysis of authorial gender and narrative strategies in the literary representation of female figures in G. Musrepov’s Mother of Mothers, Ch. Aitmatov’s Jamilia, V. Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, and T. Morrison’s Beloved. The study aims to identify artistic techniques used to construct female subjectivity, inner world, social role, and symbolic function. It employs comparative-typological analysis, close reading, and elements of gender and narratological analysis. The analysis focuses on motherhood, sacrifice, freedom, resistance, historical memory, social constraints, inner voice, and agency. The findings indicate that social, moral, and active dimensions of female characters are more pronounced in the works of the selected male authors, while female authors more extensively integrate consciousness, memory, and psychological experience into narrative structure. These differences are considered in relation to genre, historical context, cultural environment, and individual authorial poetics rather than attributed solely to gender. Reception is understood as a potential interpretive possibility generated by the text rather than an empirical reader response. The study’s novelty lies in treating authorial gender as one analytical dimension of comparative literary analysis rather than an isolated causal factor.