Naslov
Women as the Other and their Liberation in Neo- Victorian Fiction

Autori
Pandžić, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
Re-Thinking Humanities and Social Sciences „The Issue of the (Post) Other: Postmodernism and the Other“

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 10-12.09.2010

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
neo-Victorian prose ; feminist criticism ; Angela Carter ; Sarah Waters

Sažetak
The center of my presentation is neo-Victorian prose, the subgenre of literature generated by the postmodern refashioning of the nineteenth century. These contemporary rewrites based on the concept of intertextuality provide us with different critical perspectives of the Victorian era, such as feminist and postcolonial. It is my intention to deal with one such perspective connected to the feminist criticism and revision of the Victorian era. In order to present this research, I have selected two female authors: Angela Carter and Sarah Waters, whose writings revive the true Victorian spirit combined with the postmodern unrestrained sense of revealing the unspoken female thought. It is no secret that a woman of the nineteenth century was often silenced by patriarchal norms, as further analysis will show. She was also restrained from expressing her opinions and desires for fear of being pushed to the edge of patriarchal society as an outcast. Angela Carter’s and Sarah Waters’ main characters are women of strong personality who deconstruct the Victorian woman’s identity formed under and by the male gaze, a distorted perception of who a woman really is. By foregrounding female narrative voices, Carter and Waters write women back into history. Giving women voices of which they were deprived all throughout history is one of the main goals of feminism. In such manner we could postulate that neo-Victorianism is partly a product of feminism. The identity of a Victorian woman as the Other is to be deconstructed in the neo-Victorian novels, either by criticism, or simply by liberating behavior of Waters’ and Carter’s heroines.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Književnost, Rodni studiji

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