International Journal of Language, Linguistics, Literature and Education

Feminist perspectives in contemporary English literature offer a critical lens through which shifting constructions of gender, power, and identity can be examined within changing social and cultural contexts. Contemporary feminist criticism moves beyond the recovery of women‘s voices to engage with broader questions of intersectionality, incorporating class, race, sexuality, post colonialism, and migration into literary analysis. Literary texts produced in recent decades increasingly rework canonical narratives, foregrounding female protagonists and challenging inherited representations of agency, silence, and subjectivity. Such rearticulations reveal the limitations of patriarchal narrative traditions while opening spaces for alternative modes of expression. Attention to narrative form and genre further demonstrates how experimental and hybrid structures function as sites of resistance, destabilizing conventional literary hierarchies. Feminist engagements also extend to diasporic and transnational writings, where women‘s experiences are shaped by histories of colonization, displacement, and globalization. Alongside textual analysis, feminist criticism emphasizes collaborative practices, archival recovery, and pedagogical interventions that foster ethical responsibility and inclusive communities of reading. Collectively, these approaches contribute to the reshaping of the contemporary literary canon, affirming feminism as a dynamic and evolving framework. Feminist perspectives thus remain central to understanding how literature responds to social change while articulating diverse female experiences across cultural boundaries.