La deconstrucción del cuento de hadasintertextualidad y feminismo en The Cloud de John Fowles
ISSN: 1579-7902
Year of publication: 2008
Issue: 7
Pages: 143-156
Type: Article
More publications in: Clepsydra: Revista de Estudios de Género y Teoría Feminista
Abstract
Postmodernist rewritings of the fairy tale have focused on the social function of the genre and provided an ideological perspective of its canonical cultural patterns by pointing at the way in which they reinforce patriarchal values. This paper focuses on how the revision of the fairy tale in «The Cloud» subverts and deconstructs the traditional plot and patterns of the genre in order to free female cultural identity from stereotyped role models and reconstruct a new sense of identity. I am interested in exploring how Catherine rewrites the narratives of patriarchy, how she resists the constrictions imposed by such narratives and how such fictional resistance interacts with her attempts of achieving freedom by inventing new structures