Artikel
Writing the Ineffable : Postwar Female Employment and Domestic Violence in Carmen Laforet’s "Nada"
Verfasst von:
Ryan, Lorraine
info
in:
Forum for modern language studies
Oxford:
2017
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463–4822 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Ryan, Lorraine info |
| In: | Forum for modern language studies |
| Jahr: | 2017 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article considers the unexplored and interrelated motifs of female employment and domestic violence in Carmen Laforet’s 1945 novel, Nada. The voyeuristic gaze of the main protagonist, Andrea, renders an intimate and sustained portrait of the inversion of gender roles in a postwar marriage in which the wife, Gloria, is the breadwinner and the husband, Juan, is both traumatized and poverty-stricken. My analysis is three-fold, centring primarily on Juan’s inadequate masculinity, Gloria’s economic power and her forms of resistance. My article reconceives Laforet’s treatment of gender by illuminating the under-studied categories of the traumatized male and the working woman in the postwar period. This article will also consider Laforet’s investment in this reconstruction of postwar gender archetypes, seeking to ascertain whether the representation of Gloria and Juan is a critical response to, and undoing of, prejudicial social and gendered practices, or whether remnants of those very same biases underlie this representation. | |
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