Fizyczne i społeczno-kulturowe rany bohaterek współczesnej fantastyki młodzieżowej w świetle feminizmu korporalnego
Physical and Socio-cultural Wounds of the Heroines of contemporary Young Adult Fantasy in the Light of Corporeal Feminism
Author(s): Weronika KosteckaSubject(s): Philosophy, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Studies of Literature, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Culture and social structure , Health and medicine and law, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: body; emancipation; young adult fantasy; woman; mutilation; wound
Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the wounded body of heroines of young adult fantasy, understood as a socio-cultural construction and an element of female identity. By referring to the key assumptions of corporeal feminism (represented, for example, by Elizabeth Grosz, Ewa Hyży, and Monika Świerkosz), I analyze three novel series: The Mirror Visitor by Christelle Dabos, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, and The Jewel by Amy Ewing. I examine how the heroines’ bodies determine their place in the social hierarchy, how the heroines experience the world through their bodies, and whether they own their bodies in a cultural, social, and political sense. I point to the importance of tormenting the protagonists’ bodies as an obligatory way to female emancipation.
Journal: ER(R)GO. Teoria-Literatura-Kultura
- Issue Year: 1/2023
- Issue No: 46
- Page Range: 113-130
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Polish
