Petra Hůlová’s representation of Mongolian women in “All This Belongs to Me”
Petra Hůlová’s representation of Mongolian women in “All This Belongs to Me”

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the Czech writer Petra Hůlová’ s representation of Mongolian women inAll This Belongs to Me in an effort to discuss possible epistemological dangers involved in suchcross-cultural representation of Asia by a European writing self. Through a close reading ofthe text, the paper explores how the represented five Mongolian females from one family areinvariably subsumed under the strong patriarchal ideology of their Mongolian society. Thisrepresentation of Mongolian women’s oppression is then discussed in the historical context ofOrientalism, which has excessively exaggerated patriarchal culture of Asia and Asian women’soppression. Examining strategies Hůlová adopts to resist mere exoticization of Mongolianculture, the paper considers whether Hůlová’ s cross-cultural representation presents chancesfor opportunities for readers outside of Mongolia to expand the horizon of their Eurocentricworld view.

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