Deconstructing Feminine and Feminist Fantastic through the Study of Living Dolls

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ID21728933
AuthorsRaquel VELÁZQUEZ VELÁZQUEZ (0000-0002-9507-0065, Purdue University West Lafayette, corresponding author), Raquel Velázquez (Universitat de Barcelona)
Year2021
Volume22
Issue4
Publication date2021-03-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1481-4374 • E-ISSN: 1481-4374
PublisherPurdue University (bepress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7771/1481-4374.3720
OpenAlexW3136196345
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited2

In her "Deconstructing Feminine and Feminine Fantastic through the Study of Living Dolls," Raquel Velázquez analyzes the treatment of one idiosyncratic image within the fantastic genre, and one that also has a special impact on the configuration of the feminine: the doll. On the one hand, she examines the evolution of this fantastic motif in order to determine whether it involves a transformation of how the feminine fantastic is represented. On the other hand, she establishes some correlations between the image of the fantastic doll, and the development of processes such as the dollification of women or the humanization of the doll as it is identified in contemporary society. This is seen as an exemplification of how both the alleged feminine fantastic (which is questioned here), and the feminist fantastic adjust, alter, or adapt, in the same way as the society in which it is contextualized or integrated

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Exemplification · Sociology · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies

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