“You Can’t Have It All, Sister”: Dual Timelines and Alternate (Hi)stories in Cynthia Swanson’s "The Bookseller" and Jo Walton’s" My Real Children"

María García-Lorenzo

doi:10.18172/jes.6955

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María García-Lorenzo Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6613-1826

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.6955

Palabras clave:

líneas temporales, mujeres, identidad dual, ucronía, The Bookseller, My Real Children

Resumen

En este artículo se propone que las temporalidades duales que aparecen en The Bookseller de Cynthia Swanson y en My Real Children de Jo Walton expresan la identidad fragmentada de sus protagonistas y revelan las presiones económicas, políticas y socioculturales que articulan sus vidas como mujeres. Las similitudes entre ambas novelas merecen un análisis comparativo que investigue las implicaciones ontológicas de una identidad escindida que aparentemente habita en dos líneas temporales diferentes a la vez, en las que su doble no supone una amenaza para el sujeto original, sino que motiva una reevaluación empoderadora de sus decisiones. Estas historias ucrónicas y alternativas constituyen una forma de resistencia de género a las limitadas (y a menudo incompatibles) opciones al alcance de las mujeres y a los sacrificios que implica cada elección. Las líneas temporales duales de las novelas permiten examinar la subjetividad de las mujeres, así como nociones tradicionales sobre los atributos y roles de género.

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