Rondando el intersticio: género y género literario en “El fantasma de Canterbury” de Oscar Wilde
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Relato breve, liminalidad, género y género literario, historia de fantasmas, “El fantasma de Canterville”Resumen
Este artículo examina la interacción entre género literario y género sexo en “The Canterville Ghost” de Oscar Wilde. Desde la perspectiva del relato breve como género literario, amplío la afirmación de Maureen O’Connor de que Wilde emplea estrategias narrativas “disidentes” para exponer y subvertir discursos patriarcales, así como la conceptualización de Anne Markey de este texto como un espacio narrativo polifónico. Para ello, el artículo comienza examinando la trama para ilustrar la liminalidad del relato (Achilles y Bergmann 2015: 4), que parodia y subvierte convenciones formales para divertir y perturbar a sus lectores (Markey 2010: 136) antes de transformarse en una reflexión aterradora sobre el papel de dichas convenciones en la normalización de la violencia de género (O’Connor 2004). Además, explora la recepción de la historia a través de adaptaciones cinematográficas y crítica académica, revelando cómo se han exagerado sus elementos cómicos y sentimentales para ocultar sus aspectos más oscuros. Finalmente, se centra en cómo la “condensation of multiple identities” (Achilles 2015b) en el personaje de Virginia Otis complica cualquier lectura directa de la política de género del texto. Estas discusiones demuestran la maestría de Wilde como escritor de relatos breves.
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