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- Title
Subjectivity in EIfriede Jelinek's Clara S.: Resisting The Vanishing Point.
- Authors
Thomas, Rebecca S.
- Abstract
The article discusses female subjectivity themes as portrayal by author Elfriede Jelinek in her drama "Clara S." The drama explodes time continuity to bring together characters Clara Schumann and Gabrielle D'Annunzio in a scathing denunciation of individualism in its most extreme expression. By conflating the historic time frame within the drama, Jelinek stresses on the link between nineteenth-century idealist traditions and their culmination in twentieth-century fascism. Jelinek, in the drama, dismantle the ideas of individualism and personal development. Although Jelinek's male characters are also victims of culture, they nonetheless maintain a power relationship over women who remain in a worse situation. The vampire embodies the un-dead life of female existence that is echoed in the characters of women artists in "Clara S." On closer inspection, women are always seen as objects of abuse but never as subjects in creating themselves or their world. They are imprisoned by patriarchy, capitalism, and the culture industry, all of which unite to deprive them of agency in their own exists.
- Subjects
SUBJECTIVITY in literature; JELINEK, Elfriede, 1946-; LITERARY characters; INDIVIDUALISM; MAN-woman relationships; SELF-interest; POLITICAL doctrines; COGNITION &; culture; NATIONAL socialism &; literature
- Publication
Modern Austrian Literature, 1999, Vol 32, Issue 1, p141
- ISSN
0026-7503
- Publication type
Literary Criticism