A rumor in the room next door: the constitution of subjectivities in Margaret Atwood's "Dancing Girls" and "The Man from Mars"

Authors

  • Thiago M. Moyano Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas. Departamento de Letras Modernas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1769.mag.2016.97288

Keywords:

Short Fiction, Post-Colonialism, Gender, Margaret Atwood

Abstract

This work aims at establishing a discussing based on two short stories from Dancing Girls and Other Stories (1977) by Margaret Atwood: “The Man from Mars” and “Dancing Girls”. Taking into consideration the increasing relevance of studies concerned with this literary genre, as well as its complicity with both Post-colonial and Gender Studies, this investigation shows how the author appropriates this structure in order to elaborate a criticism through the constitution of non-hegemonical subjectivities, which are inserted in an environment already demarcated by an awareness of the immigrant, phenomenon that leads them to a pattern of constant self-correction, reinforcing exactly what they allegedly try to avoid. Works by Julio Cortázar, Ricardo Piglia, Reingard Nischik, among others will be the theoretical apparatus of this paper.

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Author Biography

  • Thiago M. Moyano, Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas. Departamento de Letras Modernas

    Mestrando em Estudos Linguisticos e Literários em Inglês
    Departamento de Letras Modernas FFLCH/USP

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Published

2017-05-11

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Section

TECTÔNICAS

How to Cite

Moyano, T. M. (2017). A rumor in the room next door: the constitution of subjectivities in Margaret Atwood’s "Dancing Girls" and "The Man from Mars". Magma, 23(13), 67-79. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1769.mag.2016.97288