The experience of isolation and female identity in The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (1963)

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The novel The Wall (1963) by the Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer; initially received in the field of fantastic literature and science fiction, it offers an invaluable rereading of female identity as a cultural construction determined by a social and historical order. Firstly, the concept of women a...

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Autor principal: Wamba Gaviña, Graciela
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Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2023
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science fiction; female identity; isolation; Marlen Haushofer
ciencia ficción; identidad femenina; aislamiento; Marlen Haushofer
Acceso en línea:http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/interlitteras/article/view/13988
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spelling I28-R257-article-139882024-04-15T19:44:47Z The experience of isolation and female identity in The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (1963) La experiencia del aislamiento y la identidad femenina en El muro de Marlen Haushofer (1963) Wamba Gaviña, Graciela science fiction; female identity; isolation; Marlen Haushofer ciencia ficción; identidad femenina; aislamiento; Marlen Haushofer The novel The Wall (1963) by the Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer; initially received in the field of fantastic literature and science fiction, it offers an invaluable rereading of female identity as a cultural construction determined by a social and historical order. Firstly, the concept of women as a construction will be analyzed insofar as it is a prior antecedent to the great later movement of women for gender emancipation. Secondly, the meaning of confinement will be observed from the existentialist perspective. When the work first appears, it is immediately associated with The Plague (1947) by Albert Camus in the sense of the closure of the human being in his reality, which isolates him from the other and forces him to reflect on his existence and, therefore, on the human existence in general. On the occasion of the pandemic suffered by Covid 2020, the work belongs to the corpus of universal literature on novels about the pandemic and its social effects. La novela El muro (1963) de la escritora austríaca Marlen Haushofer; inicialmente recibida en el ámbito de la literatura fantástica y de la ciencia ficción, ofrece una relectura valiosísima de la identidad femenina como construcción cultural determinada por un orden social e histórico. Primeramente, se analizará el concepto de la mujer como construcción en tanto es un antecedente previo al gran movimiento posterior de las mujeres por la emancipación del género. En segundo lugar, se observará el sentido del encierro desde la perspectiva existencialista. Cuando la obra recién aparece inmediatamente se la asocia a La Peste (1947) de Albert Camus en el sentido del aislamiento del ser humano en su realidad, que lo aísla del otro y lo obliga a reflexionar sobre su existencia y, por ende, sobre la existencia humana en general. Con motivo de la pandemia sufrida por COVID a partir del año 2020 la obra se incorpora al corpus de la literatura universal de novelas sobre la pandemia y sus efectos sociales. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2023-12-29 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/interlitteras/article/view/13988 10.34096/interlitteras.n5.13988 Inter Litteras; Núm. 5 (2023) 2683-9695 0328-8935 spa http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/interlitteras/article/view/13988/12617 Derechos de autor 2023 Inter Litteras
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topic science fiction; female identity; isolation; Marlen Haushofer
ciencia ficción; identidad femenina; aislamiento; Marlen Haushofer
spellingShingle science fiction; female identity; isolation; Marlen Haushofer
ciencia ficción; identidad femenina; aislamiento; Marlen Haushofer
Wamba Gaviña, Graciela
The experience of isolation and female identity in The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (1963)
topic_facet science fiction; female identity; isolation; Marlen Haushofer
ciencia ficción; identidad femenina; aislamiento; Marlen Haushofer
author Wamba Gaviña, Graciela
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title The experience of isolation and female identity in The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (1963)
title_short The experience of isolation and female identity in The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (1963)
title_full The experience of isolation and female identity in The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (1963)
title_fullStr The experience of isolation and female identity in The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (1963)
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description The novel The Wall (1963) by the Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer; initially received in the field of fantastic literature and science fiction, it offers an invaluable rereading of female identity as a cultural construction determined by a social and historical order. Firstly, the concept of women as a construction will be analyzed insofar as it is a prior antecedent to the great later movement of women for gender emancipation. Secondly, the meaning of confinement will be observed from the existentialist perspective. When the work first appears, it is immediately associated with The Plague (1947) by Albert Camus in the sense of the closure of the human being in his reality, which isolates him from the other and forces him to reflect on his existence and, therefore, on the human existence in general. On the occasion of the pandemic suffered by Covid 2020, the work belongs to the corpus of universal literature on novels about the pandemic and its social effects.
publisher Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
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