Ian McEwan’s literary approach to feminism: an applied analysis

Abstract

In this paper, I have tried to explain how Ian McEwan's public and supportive feminist discourse is transplanted into the intricate configurations of his novels. The subsequent but interesting transformations that such a relocation implies consist, in my view, in the challenging of feminism as an ideology but not in the critique of women's rights to obtain legitimate equality of chances. Far from representing an artistic unavoidable reversal or a more substantial retraction, the distancing from a dogmatic dimension through the epic facilitates a beneficial encounter between feminism and a version of reality not so amenable to its requests and ideals.