Performing (in)sanityun-doing gender in janet frame’s an angel at my table
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 1137-005X
Año de publicación: 2016
Número: 23
Páginas: 35-45
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: The Grove: Working papers on English studies
Resumen
Este ensayo explora la locura como práctica preformativa en An Angel At My Table de Janet Frame (1981) como forma de escapar de las convenciones de género. Siguiendo a Shoshana Felman y a Suzette Henke, observaremos cómo Frame reconstruye una nueva identidad al renunciar a las convenciones del género femenino—en especial, la sexualidad y el cuerpo femenino normativo. En la segunda parte de este artículo se analiza cómo al omitir en su autobiografía el relato de su estancia en diversas instituciones mentales, restaura y se hace cargo de la imagen que quiere proyectar de sí misma.
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