"She felt it, creeping out of the sky": madness and death as liberation in nineteenth-century women's fiction

Pope Ramos, Paula

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dc.creator	Pope Ramos, Paula
dc.date	2022-09-29
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-28T19:31:26Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-28T19:31:26Z
dc.identifier	https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/itinerarios/article/view/16249
dc.identifier.uri	https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/243741
dc.description	Women have been deemed mad for centuries. Such a diagnosis leads them to two paths: they either die within themselves, or, more advantageously, they ascend to a different level of freedom. In this paper, focusing on three texts produced in the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” (1892), and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” (1894) and The awakening (1899), we argue that, with a Gothic-like morbidity, their self-destructive protagonists, when facing restricting and limited lives, are aroused by a death instinct more satisfying than the unbearable reality they live in. Thus, it is through the annihilation of life, either via madness or death, that they reach liberation.	en-US
dc.description	As mulheres têm sido consideradas loucas há séculos. Tal diagnóstico as leva a dois caminhos: elas, por um lado, morrem dentro de si ou, por outro mais vantajoso, ascendem a um nível diferente de liberdade. Neste artigo, mantendo o foco em três textos produzidos no final do século XIX, “The yellow wall-paper” (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892), “The story of an hour” (Kate Chopin, 1894) e o romance The awakening (Kate Chopin, 1899), argumentamos que, com uma morbidez gótica, suas protagonistas autodestrutivas, diante de vidas restritas e limitadas, são despertadas por uma pulsão de morte mais satisfatória que a realidade insuportável em que vivem. Assim, é através da loucura ou da morte que elas alcançam a libertação.	pt-BR
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Faculdade de Ciências e Letras - UNESP	pt-BR
dc.relation	https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/itinerarios/article/view/16249/14071
dc.source	ITINERÁRIOS – Revue de Littérature; No 54 (2022)	fr-FR
dc.source	ITINERÁRIOS – Revista de Literatura; n. 54 (2022)	pt-BR
dc.source	0103-815X
dc.source	2526-2726
dc.subject	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	en-US
dc.subject	Death	en-US
dc.subject	Gothic Poetics	en-US
dc.subject	Kate Chopin	en-US
dc.subject	Madness	en-US
dc.subject	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	pt-BR
dc.subject	Kate Chopin	pt-BR
dc.subject	Loucura	pt-BR
dc.subject	Morte	pt-BR
dc.subject	Poética gótica	pt-BR
dc.title	"She felt it, creeping out of the sky": madness and death as liberation in nineteenth-century women's fiction	en-US
dc.title	“She felt it, creeping out of the sky”: loucura e morte como libertação na ficção de mulheres do século XIX	pt-BR
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