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
Datum der Publikation: 2016
Nummer: 23
Seiten: 35-45
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: The Grove: Working papers on English studies
Zusammenfassung
This essay explores madness as a performative practice in Janet Frame’s An Angel At My Table (1981) as a way to escape from gender conventions. Following Shoshana Felman and Suzette Henke, I will look at how Frame deconstructs and reconstructs a new identity by giving up female gender conventions—especially sexuality and the normative female body. In the second part of this article I analyse how, by omitting an actual account of her stay in numerous mental institutions in her autobiography, she reshapes and “remembers” the image that she wants to portray of herself.
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