"The Theatre of the Family": An Irish Approach to Gender Awareness in Catherine Dunne's Fiction

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Catherine Dunne’s fiction masterly portrays ordinary themes like family relations and the process of identity formation, and she criticises the constraining elements that thwart female subjectivity in Ireland. However, as I intend to argue in this article, by bringing to the fore the diverse ways whereby women transcend the social, psychological or material barriers that the Irish family ideology and the rhetorics of maternity have traditionally set upon them, Dunne emphasizes the need to re-think the social and individual implications that these obstacles entail, insofar as the rearticulation of their conventional significance constitutes a catalyst for women’s attainment of self-discovery. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
La narrativa de Catherine Dunne describe temas cotidianos como las relaciones familiares y la construcción de la identidad, y critica los elementos que delimitan la subjetividad femenina en Irlanda. Sin embargo, como intentaré demostrar en este artículo, al resaltar cómo las mujeres trascienden los obstáculos sociales, psicológicos y materiales que la ideología de la familia y la retórica de la maternidad les han impuesto tradicionalmente en Irlanda, Dunne enfatiza la necesidad de cuestionar las implicaciones sociales e individuales de dichas barreras, dado que la rearticulación de su significación convencional constituye un elemento de cambio hacia la consecución de la plena conciencia femenina.

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Pérez Vides, A. (2017). "The Theatre of the Family": An Irish Approach to Gender Awareness in Catherine Dunne's Fiction. Odisea. Revista de Estudios Ingleses, 12, 183-194. https://doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i12.248

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