FEMININITY IN "REMARKABLE CREATURES" BY TRACY CHEVALIER
FEMININITY IN "REMARKABLE CREATURES" BY TRACY CHEVALIER
Author(s): Raluca GhențulescuSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Philology, Translation Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Conspress
Keywords: feminine identity and otherness; narrative images; narrative dialogue
Summary/Abstract: In her novel Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier tries to retrace the representation of women in the past, by focusing on a less known problem: the contribution of two women paleontologists of the 19th century, a time when the access of women in science was forbidden. The “remarkable creatures” are not the only fossils they discover; the women themselves are seen as «curiosities» in a world dominated by men. The novel is based on a double perspective, on a dialogue between the two main characters, Elizabeth Philpot and Mary Anning, who display alternative aspects of femininity (women’s friendship, women’s role in the Victorian society, the contradiction between the two women’s free spirit expressed in science and the religious dogma of the time).
- Issue Year: VII/2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 41-46
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English