Going Down in Herstory: Re-writing Women’s Lives in Michèle Roberts’s “On the Beach at Trouville”

Silvia García-Hernández

doi:10.18172/jes.4784

Autores/as

Silvia García-Hernández Universidad de Alcalá https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8276-604X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.4784

Palabras clave:

Michèle Roberts, “herstoria”, novela histórica escrita por mujeres, re-escritura, subversión, intertextualidad

Resumen

A lo largo de su carrera como escritora, Michèle Roberts ha sido una de las autoras contemporáneas que ha reconstruido y reescrito las vidas de mujeres previamente olvidadas, marginadas y silenciadas. En su intento por reinscribir sus voces en la historia, Roberts ha reescrito, desde una perspectiva femenina, las vidas de santas, figuras bíblicas y otras escritoras. En su última colección de relatos cortos, Mud: Stories of Sex and Love, todas las historias las protagonizan mujeres a las que Roberts da voz y con las que proporciona al lector nuevas visiones de la realidad previamente establecida. Este trabajo se centra en el análisis del relato “On the Beach at Trouville”, donde se examinan las estrategias que Roberts utiliza para presentar las vidas de Teresa de Lisieux y de Camille Monet desde sus propias perspectivas, así como la subversión de la construcción patriarcal de la historia.

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