Zusammenfassung der Ressource
She Unnames Them
- Postmodernism
- New fiction
- fabulation/Magic Realism
- fantasy for
reconsideration and
reimagination of
women's position
- "Me Decade": short-story realist style
- themes
- fallacy of human superiority
- rewriting as an
approach to
cultural forces of
power relations
- contestation of authority
- discourses of difference and power
- power relations:
God as a creator of
life, Adam as namer
(patriarchal
structures)
- telling woman's
part of the story,
excluded from
creative and
linguistic power
- unnaming herself
rejects the role and
cultural connection
that the name
casts on her
Anmerkungen:
- demolishes the barriers of dominance
- language as an obstacle
Anmerkungen:
- a barrier relegating Eve and animals to generic functions in service of Adam's needs
- ideal where hunter
and hunted cant be
distinguished
- ecofeminism
Anmerkungen:
- similarities between rights of women and animals, all kinds of oppression emanate from the same source
- devices
- retelling of the myth of Genesis
- subversion of mythical
construction that
justifies discourses of
difference and power
- intertextuality
Anmerkungen:
- Intertextual theory: all texts belong to an immense matrix where they are connected by common reading and writing practices
- Bildungsroman
- allusion, quotation
- parody
- ideological paralimpsest
Anmerkungen:
- offers silenced or ignored point of view
- binary oppositions: she/he, them/us
- lacks spatial or
temporal details
(postlapsarian
condition)
- mock tone
deprives
story from
religious
overtones
- results in
an
utopian
vision of
power
relations
- in betweenness
accentuated by
surrealist elements
and domestic
affairs