Ambiguity in the composition of female characters by Ana Teresa Pereira and Cristina Fernández Cubas

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Maria João Simões
Universidade de Coimbra
Portugal
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6648-9097
No 58 (2021): 1º semestre, Studies, pages 45-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/bgl.58.7530
Submitted: 20-02-2021 Accepted: 30-05-2021 Published: 29-06-2021
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Ambiguity and strangeness permeate the construction of the fantastic characters created by Ana Teresa Pereira and Cristina Fernández Cubas. Both authors depict feminine characters which face power contexts and games of seduction that are equivocal. Using “expanded time” or “convergent time” (cf. D. Roas), or by using “rhizomatic spaces” (cf. P. Garcia), the characters face irreal or impossible events. The purpose is to investigate, in the works Inverness and El Columpio, this erasure of the real in the composition of characters and also, how fantastic figures are built, crediting the dual model of D. Mellier: explicit fantastic versus fantastic of indetermination. The fantastic effects created on the configuration of characters will be analised, as well as the ways that time and space games contribute to the development of them. It will be shown how these figurations question the feminine condition, while being presented as metaphors of feminine subjectivity construct.

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fantastic, character, feminine narrator, Ana Teresa Pereira, Cristina Fernández Cubas
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