Performing (In)sanity: Un-Doing Gender in Janet Frame’s An Angel at my Table
This essay explores madness as a performative practice in Janet Frame’s An Angel At My Table (1981) as a way to escape from gender conventions. Following Shoshana Felman and Suzette Henke, I will look at how Frame deconstructs and reconstructs a new identity by giving up female gender conventions—e...
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Universidad de Jaén
2016-12-01
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| Series: | The Grove |
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| Online Access: | http://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/grove/article/view/2857 |