OF MIMICRY AND WOMAN: A FEMINIST POSTCOLONIAL READING OF WIDE SARGASSO SEA AND THE BIGGEST MODERN WOMAN OF THE WORLD

Feminist and postcolonial studies have shown a similar concern with the production of new and more empowering subjectivities for those historically cast as subaltern in androcentric western contexts. In literature, as in criticism, concepts such as revision and subversion receive unprecedented attention as discourse, and hence narrative, begins to be seen as the very site where identity and relations of power are constructed and negotiated. Among the many women writers who sought to counterbalance the white maleness of the literary canon by giving colonized women a voice and a (hi)story are writers as diverse as the Dominican-born English writer Jean Rhys and the Canadian novelist Susan Swan. In their major fictional works, respectively Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and The Biggest Modern Woman of the World (1983), they challenge the tradition of both literature and history by providing secondary or marginal women characters with a story of their own. Based primarily on the concepts of subversion and rearticulation proposed by Judith Butler and Homi Bhabha, this paper investigates and compares the strategies of representation employed by Rhys and Swan in the above novels with special attention to the relationship between the protagonists’ bodily experiences and the countries and cultures they stand for

THE GROTESQUE FEMALE BODY IN THE PASSION OF NEW EVE AND THE BIGGEST MODERN WOMAN OF THE WORLD

The female body has been the focus of many literary works, especially in recent times, in which new roles for women have been broadly discussed. In an attempt to free the female body from its cultural constraints, many authors have resorted to the grotesque with its excesses and fluid boundaries with society, as originally defined by Bakhtin. Two contemporary novels by female authors are especially relevant in this respect: The Passion of New Eve, published in 1977, by Angela Carter, and The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, published in 1983, by Susan Swan. After presenting some theoretical aspects related to the grotesque, mainly from Mikhail Bakhtin (1999) and Mary Russo (1994), this article will discuss how Carter’s and Swan’s novels deal with “freak” characters and with larger than life female protagonists who represent womanhood beyond the limits of conventional femininity

Liberdade, justiça e igualdade para mulheres : uma entrevista com Toril Moi

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Gênero e(m) discurso(s)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X200900020001

feminismo e utopia

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Palavra e imagem: representações ideológicas

Representação e mulher, palavra e imagem, corpo e gênero http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X201300030001

“A distopia de ontem é a realidade de hoje”: uma entrevista com Susana Bornéo Funck

Nesta entrevista, o professor Anselmo Peres Alós conversa com Susana Bornéo Funck, professora aposentada de Literaturas de Língua Inglesa da Universidade federal de Santa Catarina. Susana possui uma longa trajetória como docente e pesquisadora, sendo um dos nomes de destaque no cenário da crítica literária feminista no Brasil. Ao longo da entrevista, Susana fala de sua formação, de sua trajetória como docente e como pesquisadora universitária, do início da crítica feminista no Brasil, da institucionalização da pesquisa feminista na academia brasileira