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Michael Field's Sapphism : an Ontology of the Feminine in "Long Ago" (1889)
2018
This article examines the valuable contribution that Katherine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper made to the vast tradition of queer Sapphism in Long Ago (1889), their first volume of poetry published under the collaborative pseudonym of Michael Field. Taking as my starting point the well-established assumption among contemporary critics that this volume represents an original instance of lesbian writing, I seek to argue that Long Ago not only appropriates and celebrates the figure of Sappho as a lesbian archetype, it also proposes a subversive gender theory that conceptualises the feminine as the essential principle of vitalism, the masculine as the very representation of death, and homoe…
Gender in translating lesbianism in The Second Sex
2011
Drawing on three Chinese translations of the lesbian chapter in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, this paper examines at the micro level how the discussions on lesbianism in the work are translated and what role gender identity plays in the process of translation. Lesbianism has played an important part in feminism. However, homosexuality is still regarded as unacceptable to most Chinese people. Thus, an examination of translations of lesbianism in The Second Sex might be especially revealing in terms of representation of Western feminism. The comparison reveals that there are obvious differences between the translations by the female translators and the male translators. The differences…
"Vestirme de hombre y montar a caballo". Androginia y mujer moderna en la novela autobiográfica "Oculto sendero", de Elena Fortún
2021
espanolLa escritora Elena Fortun (Madrid, 1886-1952) es celebre por su mitico personaje de ficcion para ninos: la imaginativa y traviesa Celia. Este articulo pretende analizar la obra mas alternativa de la autora, Oculto sendero, publicada por primera vez en 2016 tras decadas escondida en una maleta: la autora no la quiso publicar en vida. Se trata de una obra de corte autobiografico donde Fortun usa el personaje de la pintora Maria Luisa Arroyo para hablar de su propio proceso de descubrimiento de una orientacion sexual que una madre autoritaria, el matrimonio y la presion social le impidieron vivir plenamente. Este articulo estudia el vinculo entre el concepto de «mujer moderna» y la adop…