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Women are just planets that attract the wrong species: An Exploration of Feminist Issues through Dystopia in Jeanette Winterson s The Stone Gods
Women are just planets that attract the wrong species: An Exploration of Feminist Issues through Dystopia in Jeanette Winterson s The Stone Gods, 2023., diplomski rad, diplomski, Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Zagreb
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Naslov
Women are just planets that attract the wrong species: An Exploration of Feminist Issues through Dystopia in Jeanette Winterson s The Stone Gods
Autori
Podnar, Antonia Petra
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, diplomski rad, diplomski
Fakultet
Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu
Mjesto
Zagreb
Datum
22.02
Godina
2023
Stranica
30
Mentor
Polak, Iva
Ključne riječi
The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson, feminism, bodily autonomy, identity, entropy
Sažetak
The thesis examines the ways in which Winterson depicts and eventually unveils the mechanism behind most modern feminist issues. Using repetition as a literary device, but also as a major motif, Winterson builds The Stone Gods into a multi-layered exploration of the challenges of womanhood, history and fate. This metatextual novel contains multitudes, tightly interwoven and virtually inextricable, centering the human condition as a driving force of the perpetuum mobile that is our universe. This reading is focused mainly on what is, in this dystopian utopia, considered to be Other – be it women, queer people, or robots – and their fight to rip away from the centrifugal force that keeps the world turning in an endless cycle of forgetting history and repeating it. The novel itself posits that the world these characters live in is “a repeating world” – the entire course of human history happens again and again, and humans keep repeating the same mistakes. It paints a rather bleak picture of humanity and, on the surface, makes it look like it is simply human nature not to learn anything from past mistakes and to eventually self-destruct. Through her carefully constructed narrative, however, Winterson reveals that fate might not be what it seems, and that there is a way to break the chain of suffering. Entropy presented in the novel can be broken by forming the bonds that are the ultimate core of the story, the only thing capable of breaking the pattern of self-destruction - human love.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
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