Sexual Violence Deconstructed: Simone de Beavoir, Angela Carter and Rikki Ducornet Investigate Sade
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1311
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i6.162
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i6.162
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The complex universe created by Sade has conditioned the Western imagination in such a way that his figure has been vindicated by the different aesthetic and philosophical perspectives inhabiting the last century. Due to his potential of transgression Sade has become a cultural icon with some relevance for the evolution of feminism in the last decades. It is the purpose of this article to draw a critical line starting with the masculine tradition and analyzing later the different feminist rewritings that begins with Beauvoir ’s revision (1955), followed by the essay The Sadeian Woman (1979) by Angela Carter, ending with Rikki Ducornet ’s The Fan-Maker ’s Inquisition. A Novel of the Marquis de Sade (1999). El complejo universo creado por Sade ha condicionado de tal forma el imaginario occidental que su figura sigue siendo reivindicada desde las múltiples perspectivas filosóficas y estéticas que sustentan el pensamiento del siglo XX. Debido a su enorme potencial de trasgresión este escri...
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Sade
Historiographic metafiction
Deconstruction
Metaficción historiográfica
Deconstrucción