Naslov
Tenderness of Space and Outlandish Woman The Tenderness of the Wolves and The Outlander

Autori
Polić, Vanja

Izvornik
Review of International American Studies RIAS (1991-2773) 5 (2011), 1-2/2011; 187-208

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

Ključne riječi
space; woman; detective fiction; history; Canada

Sažetak
In two novels belonging to the genre of the detective fiction (Todorov) – Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of Wolves (2006) and Gil Adamson’s The Outlander (2007) – the backdrop is analyzed to reveal how the stereotypical perceptions of late 19th and early 20th century Canadian space are reworked to accommodate the development of female protagonists within generic fiction which does not usually allocate much space to character development. The stereotypical images of Canada are thus used to reveal both the space and women as sites of inscription by a white European man. The traditionally accepted binary oppositions of civilization vs. nature, savage/Native man vs. civilized/white man, man vs. woman, centre vs. periphery, are problematized and deconstructed, foregrounding the marginal characters of the settler society.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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