Artikel
My "Brilliant Career" (1901) as metafiction : feminist rewriting, resistance and collage
Verfasst von:
Sircar, Sanjay
in:
Berlin ; Wien [u.a.]:
1998
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52 - 68 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Sircar, Sanjay |
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| Jahr: | 1998 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The autobiographical Australian realism of Miles Franklin's classic "My brillian career" (1901), conceals a feminist resistant rewriting of inherited culturally potent materials: the "Expulsion from Eden" myth, the fairytales of "Cinderella" and the "Ugly Duckling", the Governess Novel and the Drunkard's Daughter motif. The inherited stylised elements are "displaced" in a realistic text; the presence of the old texts signals that the new text is a "metafiction" about them, breaking old normative patterns to emphasise their presence, to resist their authority, adequacy, and their patriarchal ideology. In presenting a bad Adam, an unsuitable prince, a useless beauty, no marriage, and no drunkard's reformation, the new text conveys an image of a woman struggling to achieve independence in rejection of matrimony, and in a career as writer. Its movement towards a new story for women implicitly comments on the old ones in showing the burden of the old internalised images from fiction in that woman's desire to cling to childhood. "Carreer"'s metafictive refunctioning implies that to remain a child is part of the alternative to marriage, and encourages a feminist reading of the dilemma of women in a patriarchal society. | |
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