Présences féminines dans le cyberespace littéraire
Présences féminines dans le cyberespace littéraire

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines different perspectives on feminity in some contemporary Romanian works which can be seen as cyberpunk fictions: Cinci nori coloraţi pe cerul de răsărit by Florina Ilis, Derapaj by Ion Manolescu, and Vincent nemuritorul by Bogdan Suceavă. Our approach identifies the role and the features of feminine characters in a technological world usually seen as a manlike territory. The presence of futuristic themes, the play between actual and virtual reality, the serious (or ironic) meditation on the ethics of technology introduce new (or the same old) attributes for feminine figures. The female characters’identity is mainly projected by the masculine into a technological (pseudo)reality, on the tv’ s or computer’ screen. Unable to understand and to tame the feminine unknown, the male characters convert it into an electronic medium. Instead of a phalocentric perspective, when woman is seen as a powerless object, the omnipresence of the masculine (narrative) apprehension describes an alteration of the perceptive system, the male’fragility and the dependence on technological devices.

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