Naslov
Female Body as a Source of Shared (Hi)stories: On Munro’s Del and Joyce’s Eveline

Autori
Penjak, Ana

Izvornik
ELOPE (1581-8918) 19 (2022), 1; 67-80(126)

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Alice Munro ; Jame Joyce ; Live of Girls and Women ; Dubliners ; body ; gender ; identity ; society

Sažetak
Every society and culture, no matter the period, has its own social conventions that provide specific models for ways of behaving, thinking, and communicating. According to Cordelia Fine (2012), such values are shared and reflected on and by our body (through our social roles and positions, expressions and behaviour). In an attempt to clarify the above, this paper elicits and compares shared (hi)stories told on and by the bodies of two female characters—Del Jordan in Alice Munro’s short story cycle Lives of Girls and Women (1971) and Eveline Hill from James Joyce’s short story Eveline from the collection Dubliners (1914). The paper approaches Del’s and Eveline’s body as a source for a broader semantic notion: a (re)source for (re)creating and understanding both characters’ sociocultural and family surrounding that, consequently, act as a (re)source for all their silenced desires, life choices and identities. Although geographically set in different spatiotemporal contexts, the paper also highlights other elements shared by both characters: same harsh geographical surroundings, patriarchal social conventions, gender discrimination issue, limited life choices, individualism vs community, family demands etc.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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