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- Title
La veu de les ones: dones, folklore i escriptura.
- Authors
Francés Díez, M. Àngels
- Abstract
This paper examines essayistic, poetic and narrative texts by various contemporary authors -- Virginie Despentes, Isabel-Clara Simó, Maria Cabrera, Maria Mercè Marçal and Carme Riera -- from the perspective of feminist literary criticism, the phases of which were identified by Julia Kristeva in 1986 and which are discussed here simultaneously. We analyse Despentes and Simó's vision of traditional images of women in the context of current cultural discourses, such as cinema and literature; we explore Cabrera and Marçal's concept of authorship and take a gynocritical approach to analyse their search for a female genealogy, at once literary and everyday, as a source of inspiration to find one's own lyrical voice; finally, we hear, thanks to Riera, the voice of the siren that echoes among the waves of the sea where, turned into foam by a lover's indifference, she tells her true story in the first person and subverts Andersen's version in "The Little Mermaid". The figures of traditional folklore, either through the collective imagination or as literary characters, are a source of inspiration for the three authors studied, who use the evocative power of ethnopoetics to discredit traditionally imposed definitions about women.
- Subjects
LITERARY criticism; OCEAN waves; FEMINIST criticism; NARRATION; MERMAIDS; WOMEN'S writings; LITERARY characters
- Publication
Studies in Oral Folk Literature / Estudis de Literatura Oral Popular, 2024, Issue 13, p9
- ISSN
2014-7996
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17345/elop20243882