La Fabrique des corps dans Balcony Stories de Grace King
This essay examines Grace King’s depiction of the way in which the patriarchal system of the Old South fashioned docile bodies which struggled to adapt to the fast-changing postbellum society of the late 19th century. These are bodies which cannot fully express themselves once they have broken free...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2022-12-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/15153 |
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| Summary: | This essay examines Grace King’s depiction of the way in which the patriarchal system of the Old South fashioned docile bodies which struggled to adapt to the fast-changing postbellum society of the late 19th century. These are bodies which cannot fully express themselves once they have broken free from the prison of the asylum, the slave pen, or the convent. We shall also see how King subverts established frames and undermines the disciplinary system of her own short story collection: in this panopticon of sorts, should we regard the balcony as another prison or as a surveillance tower? Doesn’t it allow its female occupants to recover an authority of which they have been deprived? |
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| ISSN: | 1638-1718 |