ARCHETYPAL FEMALE PROTOTYPES IN SEBASTIAN A. CORN'S HEALER. EFFIGIES OF THE AMAZON
ARCHETYPAL FEMALE PROTOTYPES IN SEBASTIAN A. CORN'S HEALER. EFFIGIES OF THE AMAZON

Summary/Abstract: The image of femininity has become a subject of great interest for new directions of research, being the main concern of feminist literary studies. From the very beginning, science-fiction literature has promoted the female character as being degraded, inferior to males, devoid of essence, objectified, and so on, and with rather physical qualities (best illustrated in the cinematic arts). However, there is also an atypical role for the universal pattern of female character construction: the Amazon Woman. With a well-rooted origin in Greek mythology, the Amazon Woman represents a strong, independent, brutal, and cruel female character against the male species. Although it seems a reassessment of the woman’s status to that of a man’s, she is mostly interpreted as the "male woman", lacking femininity, and insensitive. Sebastian A. Corn emphasizes this feminine hypostasis in his novel Vindecătorul. Thus, the present work follows the peculiarities of the construction of the Amazon Woman character in this Romanian novel and correlates it to gender stereotypes and its representation in mythology.

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