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'Close as a kiss': Gyn/Affe...
Margaret Atwood's novella The Penelopiad (2005) seemingly celebrates Penelope's agency in opposition to Homer's myth in The Odyssey. However, the twelve murdered maids steal the book to suggest the possibility of what Janice Raymond calls gyn/affection, a female bonding based on the logic of emotion that, in Atwood's revision, verges on Kristevan abjection, the sinister and the fantastic, and serves a cathartic effect not only in the maids but also in the reader. This essay aims to question the generally accepted empowerment of Atwood's Penelope and celebrates the murdered maids as the locus of emotion, where marginal aspects of gender and class merge to weave a powerful metaphorical tapestry of popular and traditionally feminized literary genres that, in plunging into and embracing the semiotic realm, ultimately solidify into an eclectic but compact alternative tradition of women's writing and myth-making
La novela de Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (2005), celebra en apariencia la agencia de Penélope frente al mítico personaje femenino de la versión de Homero. Sin embargo, las doce doncellas asesinadas se convierten en las verdaderas protagonistas del libro al sugerirse la posibilidad de lo que Janice Raymond denomina gyn/affection: un vínculo entre mujeres basado en la lógica de la emoción que, en la revisión de Atwood, conecta con la abyección de Kristeva, lo siniestro y lo fantástico, y sirve como efecto catártico no sólo para las doncellas sino también para el lector. Este ensayo pretende cuestionar el empoderamiento de la Penélope de Atwood y celebrar, de este modo, el papel de las doncellas como receptáculo emocional. En ellas los aspectos marginales de género y clase se funden para tejer un poderoso tapiz metafórico de géneros literarios populares, tradicionalmente etiquetados como femeninos que, al sumergirse dentro del orden semiótico, solidifican una ecléctica pero compacta tradición alternativa de escritura de mujeres y creación de mitos
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analitica Rebiun30765182 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun30765182 220605s2015 xx o 000 0 spa d https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/AMAL/article/view/47697 10.5209/rev_AMAL.2015.v7.47697 S9M oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/47697 https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/index/oai AMAL DGCNT S9M S9M dc 'Close as a kiss': Gyn/Affection in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad electronic resource] 'Cercanas como un beso': el desafío de la afectividad femenina de las doncellas en "The Penelopiad" de Margater Atwood Ediciones Complutense 2015-06-22 Ediciones Complutense application/pdf Open access content. Open access content star Margaret Atwood's novella The Penelopiad (2005) seemingly celebrates Penelope's agency in opposition to Homer's myth in The Odyssey. However, the twelve murdered maids steal the book to suggest the possibility of what Janice Raymond calls gyn/affection, a female bonding based on the logic of emotion that, in Atwood's revision, verges on Kristevan abjection, the sinister and the fantastic, and serves a cathartic effect not only in the maids but also in the reader. This essay aims to question the generally accepted empowerment of Atwood's Penelope and celebrates the murdered maids as the locus of emotion, where marginal aspects of gender and class merge to weave a powerful metaphorical tapestry of popular and traditionally feminized literary genres that, in plunging into and embracing the semiotic realm, ultimately solidify into an eclectic but compact alternative tradition of women's writing and myth-making La novela de Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (2005), celebra en apariencia la agencia de Penélope frente al mítico personaje femenino de la versión de Homero. Sin embargo, las doce doncellas asesinadas se convierten en las verdaderas protagonistas del libro al sugerirse la posibilidad de lo que Janice Raymond denomina gyn/affection: un vínculo entre mujeres basado en la lógica de la emoción que, en la revisión de Atwood, conecta con la abyección de Kristeva, lo siniestro y lo fantástico, y sirve como efecto catártico no sólo para las doncellas sino también para el lector. Este ensayo pretende cuestionar el empoderamiento de la Penélope de Atwood y celebrar, de este modo, el papel de las doncellas como receptáculo emocional. En ellas los aspectos marginales de género y clase se funden para tejer un poderoso tapiz metafórico de géneros literarios populares, tradicionalmente etiquetados como femeninos que, al sumergirse dentro del orden semiótico, solidifican una ecléctica pero compacta tradición alternativa de escritura de mujeres y creación de mitos Spanish Margaret Atwood; Penelopiad; Myth; Odyssey; Female friendship; gyn/affection; hetero-reality Margaret Atwood; Penelopiad; Mito; Odisea; amistad femenina; afectividad femenina; hetero-realidad info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Rodríguez Salas, Gerardo. cre Amaltea. Revista de mitocrítica; Vol 7 (2015): Myth and Emotions; 19-34 Amaltea. Revista de mitocrítica; Vol 7 (2015): Myth and Emotions; 19-34 Amaltea. Revista de mitocrítica; Vol 7 (2015): Myth and Emotions; 19-34 Amaltea. 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