目覚めた後に見えるもの : The Awakeningにおける19世紀女性身体とコロニアルな視線

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  • Things Seen after Awakening : The Nineteenth-Century Female Body and the Colonial Eye in The Awakening
  • メザメタ アト ニ ミエル モノ The Awakening ニ オケル 19セイキ ジョセイ シンタイ ト コロニアル ナ シセン

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Passionlessness was an image of a woman which was produced in the nineteenth century. Whereas the image was utilized to protect men's double standard for women, it defined women as a more moral sex than men; therefore, the nonsexual image became an ideology to foster women's solidarity in the era. Nevertheless, in The Awakening, the passionlessness of the nineteenth-century female body was criticized by means of presentation of Edna's sensuous body. The mother-woman such as Adele and the desexualized woman such as Reisz were both rejected by Edna. After her awakening, Edna attempted to shift her female body from an object as the seen to the site of a subject as the seer-a visually empowered subject. In the nineteenth century, men's subjectivity was built on the eye that could see others in asymmetrical relations under the colonial and patriarchal situations. Thus, Edna tried to reconstruct her life-world by acquiring and following the colonial eye. Edna's behavior after her awakening showed the process of her appropriating the masculine eye. However, Edna's post-nineteenth-century female body with the colonial eye could not secure its own place as of the late nineteenth century.

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  • 英米文化

    英米文化 35 (0), 109-124, 2005

    英米文化学会

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