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| DOI | 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035049 |
| 'Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her': Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance | |
| Deal, Clare H. | |
| 通讯作者 | Deal, CH |
| 来源期刊 | WOMEN-A CULTURAL REVIEW
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| ISSN | 0957-4042 |
| EISSN | 1470-1367 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 卷号 | 26期号:1-2页码:75-95 |
| 英文摘要 | This article examines the relationship between the desert and embodiment in E. M. Hull's international best-seller The Sheik (1919). This novel, a desert romance, has been the focus of feminist scholarship for decades because of its controversial rape narrative. Drawing on theories of embodiment, in particular the work of Elizabeth Grosz, the author interrogates how the desert is paradoxically presented as a space of liberation and oppression within which female sexuality could be explored despite the gendered violence of pre-existing patriarchal frameworks. Ultimately, the author provides a reading of Diana in terms of her transition from an androgynous ` girl' to a sexually desiring, seemingly feminized ` woman', and examines the connotations associated with this. The author establishes a connection between the transient nature of the desert and the liberation offered to women within this liminal space. Through an in-depth examination of the protagonist Diana's corporeal subjectivity over the course of the novel, the author positions The Sheik as offering a voice to female sexuality and erotic fantasy, demonstrating Hull's depiction of the desert as an appropriation of that space through which to explore female desires. This opens up new understandings of what constituted innovative literature in interwar Britain and marks Hull's book, with its overtly erotic content and specific focus on female desire, as a political and social departure. |
| 英文关键词 | desert romance E. M. Hull feminist theory gender violence power relations The Sheik twentieth century |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 收录类别 | ESCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000388607500005 |
| WOS类目 | Humanities, Multidisciplinary |
| WOS研究方向 | Arts & Humanities - Other Topics |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/331289 |
| 作者单位 | [Deal, Clare H.] Newcastle Univ, Emma Short, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, Tyne & Wear, England |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Deal, Clare H.. 'Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her': Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance[J],2015,26(1-2):75-95. |
| APA | Deal, Clare H..(2015).'Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her': Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance.WOMEN-A CULTURAL REVIEW,26(1-2),75-95. |
| MLA | Deal, Clare H.."'Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her': Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance".WOMEN-A CULTURAL REVIEW 26.1-2(2015):75-95. |
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