Applying Critical Lenses to Identity Texts

What this note covers

1. What Critical Lenses Do: Framing the Question
2. Feminist Criticism: Gender, Power, and the Construction of Self
3. Postcolonial Criticism: Nation, Belonging, and the Colonised Self
4. Reader-Response Criticism: The Self Who Reads
5. How Lenses Interact: Convergence, Conflict, and Layered Interpretation
6. Evaluating What Each Lens Offers: Insights, Limits, and the Literature–Identity Relationship
7. Writing the Integrated Critical Response: QCAA Application

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