The fantasy of the female: gender representation through the fantastic in Nora K. Jemisin's The Broken Earth

• Autores: Sara González Bernárdez
• Directores de la Tesis: Laura María Lojo Rodríguez (dir. tes.), Jorge Sacido Romero (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ( España ) en 2023
• Idioma: inglés
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Gérald Préher (presid.), Noemí Pereira Ares (secret.), Rodrigo Andrés (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados: Lingüística, Literatura y Cultura por la Universidad de A Coruña; la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela y la Universidad de Vigo
• Materias:
  • Lingüística
    • Lingüística aplicada
      • Lengua y literatura
  • Ciencias de las artes y las letras
    • Teoría análisis y critica literarias
      • Análisis literario
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: MINERVA
• Resumen

  • This thesis focuses on the representation of human subjectivity, and of marginalized identities in particular, through fantasy fiction. The main objective is to discern how, if at all, fantasy’s particular affordances enhance or make possible the representation of an other (a marginal identity who has been denied a functional subjectivity) as a subject within the fiction. To do so, the dissertation reviews philosophical and critical theories focused on identity and its relationship to narrative, which are linked through the running image of the mirror, in order to explain the importance of fictional representations for the process of individual identity construction. This theoretical framework supports the analysis of Nora K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy as an example of how fantasy can present alternatives to the ingrained primaryworld structures and discourses of discrimination which shape individual identity.