‘Just as a scientific hypothesis’. The literary language of madness in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’.
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/2080
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i13.240
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i13.240
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Rodríguez Salas, GerardoDate
2012Abstract
The focus of this article will be Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s thoroughly anthologized story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (1892). Beyond the patriarchal perception of the narrator as progressively falling into madness, this study aims to prove that, in line with some feminist readings of the story (e.g. Haney-Peritz, 1986), the unnamed female protagonist consciously elaborates a mad language and discourse as part of her strategy to fight patriarchy from within. A careful study of this language will break the reader’s initial illusion that the protagonist is mad and will show how she finally embraces the rational discourse of medicine to perpetrate her revenge.
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Gilman
"Yellow Wallpaper"
Madness
Scientific discourse
Panopticism
Scopophilia
Gilman
Locura
Discurso científico
Panoptismo
Escopofilia