Afro-american and Woman Representations on the Boundary between Narratability and Concealment Cover Image

Az afroamerikai és a nő ábrázolása elbeszélhetőség és elhallgatás határán
Afro-american and Woman Representations on the Boundary between Narratability and Concealment

Author(s): Orsolya Petra Pavelka
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: adultery; Afro-American; concealment; cultural diversity; discourse; gender; idealization; identity; literary magazines; love; narratability; race or class prejudice; rape; revenge; romantic fragmentation; social novel

Summary/Abstract: The Frivolous by Jósika Miklós is not only a story of revenge. The nineteenth century social novel’s four chapters are like separate pieces of a man discourse within which current cultural and social issues are revealed in the swinging act of narration and concealment, statement and intimation, showing and hiding. What moral standards define the limits of the discourse within which it becomes narratable the aggression, the revenge or the rape? To what extent is it important to discuss otherness, diversity? The Afro-American Motabu’s representation or Idali’s, the aristocrat from London, are problematic, so how could this controversial representation be linked to the projections of sexual frivolity and behaviour affecting the individual?

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: II
  • Page Range: 160-167
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Hungarian
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