Artikel
How women came to be somebody, which is all body and no body : Harriet Prescott Spofford's "Circumstance"
Verfasst von:
Opfermann, Susanne
in:
Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Berlin ; Wien [u.a.]:
1997
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119 - 128 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Opfermann, Susanne |
| In: | Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik |
| Jahr: | 1997 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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| Spofford's famous story of a woman who is held captive by an animal in the wilderness and pacifies the beast by singing provides an example of nineteenth-century women's writing on the body. The confrontation of woman and animal can be read as the woman's encounter with her sexual nature which ends with the symbolic death of her physical desire. The story, it is argued, explores the repression of woman's physical nature in order to establish gender difference as a precondition for civilization according to the notions of the nineteenth century. The text is remarkable as a symbolic rendering of the cultural construction of sex and gender. | |
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