‘The Double’: An intervention in the mimesis of dominant masculinity
The present article focuses on The Double, deliberately turning away from the literary motif that Saramago appropriates to denaturalize and expose the constructedness of dominant masculinity and its apparatuses of social and symbolic reproduction. The analysis sheds light on the functioning of sever...
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| description | The present article focuses on The Double, deliberately turning away from the literary motif that Saramago appropriates to denaturalize and expose the constructedness of dominant masculinity and its apparatuses of social and symbolic reproduction. The analysis sheds light on the functioning of several of such instruments, as dramatized in the novel: the name as original language; popular cinema; and common senses inherited from the oral tradition. The final section discusses the critical commentary that accompanies the narrative in dialog with contemporary critiques of masculine gender privilege. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0bb1dc0e92624546b03178c05ee68d732023-06-28T11:03:36ZspaUniversity of BolognaConfluenze2036-09672023-06-011519711510.6092/issn.2036-0967/1696715326‘The Double’: An intervention in the mimesis of dominant masculinityAna Paula Ferreira0University of MinnesotaThe present article focuses on The Double, deliberately turning away from the literary motif that Saramago appropriates to denaturalize and expose the constructedness of dominant masculinity and its apparatuses of social and symbolic reproduction. The analysis sheds light on the functioning of several of such instruments, as dramatized in the novel: the name as original language; popular cinema; and common senses inherited from the oral tradition. The final section discusses the critical commentary that accompanies the narrative in dialog with contemporary critiques of masculine gender privilege.https://confluenze.unibo.it/article/view/16967binary genderideological interpellationnormativitysymbolic reproductionmasculine domination |
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| title | ‘The Double’: An intervention in the mimesis of dominant masculinity |
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| title_short | ‘The Double’: An intervention in the mimesis of dominant masculinity |
| title_sort | the double an intervention in the mimesis of dominant masculinity |
| topic | binary gender ideological interpellation normativity symbolic reproduction masculine domination |
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