„IN BETWEEN“ - APORIA OF THE TWO-ANGLE TRIANGLE Cover Image

„ПОМЕЃУ“ - АПОРИЈА НА ДВОАГОЛНИОТ ТРИЈАГОЛНИК
„IN BETWEEN“ - APORIA OF THE TWO-ANGLE TRIANGLE

Author(s): Drasko Kostovski
Subject(s): Gender history, Novel
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: gender relationships; masculinities; complicity; hegemony; focalization; melancholia; homosocial desire; cathexis; character; narrator

Summary/Abstract: The following discourse analyses of the novel „In between“ (2008) from Irena Jordanova is focused on the literary categories of character and focalization. Using the feministic and sociological paradigm the article aims to show that the homosocial desire is crucial in establishing the patriarchal regimes for complete objectification and appropriation of the female in the erotic triangle. Even more, the analysis tends to describe the homosocial relationships of different masculinities, from the marginalized and subordinated, trough the complicit and the hegemonic as well as their transition the patriarchal network . In the specific case, the article finds out that the female is not only objectified on the story (fabula) level, but even more, the female is used as an object of symbolichomosocial transaction in the realm of the discourse (syuzhet). In this process, romance serves as homosocial normalizing and cloaking devise for safekeeping the patriarchal position.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 61
  • Page Range: 73-89
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Macedonian