Creating Your Own Space

The Metaphor of the House in Feminist Literature

AvMaría Davis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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The relationship between women and houses has always been complex. Many influential writers have used the space of the house to portray women's conflicts with the society of their time. On the one hand, houses can represent a place of physical, psychological and moral restrictions, and on the other, they often serve as a metaphor for economic freedom and social acceptance. This usage is particularly pronounced in works written in the nineteenth and twentieth century, when restrictions on women's roles were changing: "anxieties about space sometimes seem to dominate the literature of both nineteenth-century women and their twentieth-century descendants." The Metaphor of the House in Feminist Literature uses a feminist literary criticism approach in order to examine the use of the house as metaphor in nineteenth and twentieth century literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-03-04
Mått:161 x 227 x 13 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Innovation and Activism in American Women's Writing
Antal sidor:84
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781793615350

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Maria Davis is visiting assistant professor of Spanish at Oxford College of Emory University.

Recensioner i media

A house, seldom a home for women —the more luxurious or impoverished, the more imprisoning, the more beautifully designed, the more objectifying, the more socially abiding, the more privately constraining— is the focus of this useful introduction to feminist and comparative studies covering a wide range of works by authors from an equally wide range of countries.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: The House as a Symbol of Women's Economic Freedom: The House on Mango Street and A Room of One's Own Chapter 2: The House and Female Mental Entrapment: The Yellow Wallpaper and Wide Sargasso Sea Chapter 3: The House as a Metaphor for Social Performance: The House of Mirth and The Awakening Chapter 4: The House as a Symbol of Female Physical Entrapment: A Doll House and La casa de Bernarda Alba Chapter 5: The House as a Magical Space: The House of the Spirits and Like Water for Chocolate Chapter 6: The House as a Metaphor of Social and Racial Integration: Brown Girl, Brownstones and A Raisin in the Sun