Συγγραφέας
Parkin-Gounelas Ruth
Τίτλος
The Other side of the looking glass: women’s fantasy writing and Woolf’s Orlando
Περιοδικό
Γράμμα: περιοδικό θεωρίας και κριτικής
Τεύχος
1(1): 137-153
Έτος
1992
Σύνδεσμος
https://doi.org/10.26262/gramma.v1i0.7465
Περίληψη
In “The Looking Glass, from the Other Side” (This Sex Which is Not One, Luce Irigaray’s Alice inhabits a psychic space beyond the screen of patriarchal representations. Where Lewis Carroll’s Alice finds things precisely inverted in her specular kingdom, Irigaray’s Alice finds them in a perpetual process of displacement. Women’s fantasy fictions of this century can be read as paradigmatic of the experience of otherness, of writing from within structures of representation in which, as Irigaray’s Alice puts it, women are “more than half absent … on the other side”. Virginia Woolf’s Orlando exploits fantasy elements for this very purpose, to disrupt androcentric narratives, particularly those of history and biography. It demonstrates the strategy of masquerade or mimicry and the way in which this can, as Irigaray suggests, both expose and explode the reality of women’s subordination within patriarchal discourse.
Λέξεις-Κλειδιά (Συγγραφέα)
Ετικέτες
τέχνη, έμφυλες αναπαραστάσεις, κοινωνική καταπίεση-περιορισμοί, πατριαρχία
Επιστημονικό Πεδίο
Κριτική Λογοτεχνία-Φιλολογία
Παρατηρήσεις
Ειδικό Τεύχος “Το γένος της ανάγνωσης”, σε επιμέλεια Γιώργου Καλογεράς και Ruth Parkin-Γουνελά
Βιβλιογραφική Αναφορά
Parkin-Gounelas, Ruth (1992). The Other side of the looking glass: women’s fantasy writing and Woolf’s Orlando. Γράμμα: περιοδικό θεωρίας και κριτικής, 1(1), 137-153