MYSTICAL MOON, MYTHICAL WATERS: THE SYMBOLIC FEMININE IN THE AWAKENING, BY KATE CHOPIN
Kate Chopin broke paradigms with the publication of The Awakening (1899), whose subversive content caused a furor in the American Southern society. From the epiphany of her first dive in the sea, Edna Pontellier awakens to new impulses of freedom and self-assertion, contesting the feminine limitatio...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Estudos Linguísticos e Literários (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.ufba.br:article/48229 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/estudos/article/view/48229 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Kate Chopin O despertar Afrodite The Awakening Aphrodite |
| Resumo: | Kate Chopin broke paradigms with the publication of The Awakening (1899), whose subversive content caused a furor in the American Southern society. From the epiphany of her first dive in the sea, Edna Pontellier awakens to new impulses of freedom and self-assertion, contesting the feminine limitations in the finissecular patriarchal social context. In this path of self-realization, the heroine abandons the social roles of mother and wife to live for herself. In this prism, this article seeks to problematize the imagery of the maritime space as a symbol of the feminine, whose mythical bias evokes the presence of the goddess Aphrodite. To do so, the analysis will have as theoretical basis the assumptions of Jean Chevalier, Alain Gheerbrant and Mircea Eliade about the aquatic symbology, the reflections of Gilbert and Gubar regarding the mythical-symbolic approach of the narrative, among other authors. |
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