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Tytuł: | Girlhood, Disability, and Liminality in Barbara Gowdy's "Mister Sandman" |
Autor: | Czarnowus, Anna |
Słowa kluczowe: | Barbara Gowdy; Canadian novel in English; Disability; Body; Gender |
Data wydania: | 2010 |
Źródło: | Romanica Silesiana, No. 5 (2010), s. 222-234 |
Abstrakt: | Barbara Gowdy’s 1996 novel Mister Sandman centers on the mysteriously silent figure
of Joan Cannary, a mentally disabled child who yet does not become a spectacle of the grotesque
in the mode quite standard for representations of the disabled female figures, as Rosemarie Garland
Thomson noticed in her magisterial study Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability
in American Culture and Literature. In her disability Gowdy’s Joan does not constitute
a metaphor of the condition of her family, either, despite the transgressions they are prone to
devote themselves to. The novel offers an open-minded outlook on transgression as a means
of liberating oneself from the social constraints and from the self-imposed limitations. Joan’s
eternal girlhood makes her a lens for the family members’ tendency to transgress against the
norms, which is ultimately received with affirmation. Her figure offers a valuable commentary
on other texts by Gowdy, which present a discourse on the liminality of human body and on the
boundaries of identity. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/722 |
ISSN: | 1898-2433 |
Pojawia się w kolekcji: | Artykuły (W.Hum.)
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