Stručni rad
“Be Men, or Be More Than Men”: Frankenstein, Frankissstein, and Judith Butler
Mia Uremović
orcid.org/0000-0002-8505-3739
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This paper aims to explore two novels, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
and Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein, through the theoretical lens of Judith
Butler. Butler’s works used as frameworks are Gender Trouble: Feminism and the
Subversion of Identity (1990) and Bodies That Matter: on the Discursive Limits of
"Sex" (1993). The two books focus, among other things, on the notions of gender
performativity and the body as the most material dimension of sex and sexuality.
The main topics analyzed within the scope of this paper are the notions of gender
performativity and gender identity, the body, naming, and phallogocentrism.
As the older of the two novels and the one that can be considered a part
of the canon of English literature, Frankenstein has a stronger presence in both
gender and queer studies. It is more analyzed and the questions of gender and
body present in the story have been explored in more detail and from more sides.
Frankissstein, in turn, also covers a number of the same topics, but often in more
explicit ways, and offers a variety of interpretations and elements discussed in
gender and queer theory.
In the analysis of the two novels, the focus is placed on the presence
and representation of gender, how characters stray from the gender binary, or
alternatively what place they have in it, what do their bodies constitute, and how
do they function with and within them.
Ključne riječi
gender performativity, gender studies, queer studies, Judith Butler, Frankenstein
Hrčak ID:
264986
URI
Datum izdavanja:
29.10.2021.
Posjeta: 1.636 *