She Unnames Them

She Unnames Them

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

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	Created by Juan Rodriguez over 9 years ago