Ghostly Visitations in Contemporary Short Fiction by Women: Fay Weldon, Janice Galloway and Ali Smith

dc.contributor.affiliationUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Filoloxía Inglesa e Alemágl
dc.contributor.authorSacido Romero, Jorge
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-05T11:07:05Z
dc.date.available2020-05-05T11:07:05Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractFrom the late nineteenth century onwards the genre of the ghost short story has served as a vehicle for the exploration of female concerns. Women’s ghost narratives feature heroines haunted by spectral apparitions that give expression to the characters’ inner tensions with their assumption of socially sanctioned female roles. This essay reads three stories, by Fay Weldon, Janice Galloway and Ali Smith, to show how the potential of the genre to question the norm and to give shape to personal, intergenerational and historical conflicts continues to be deployed by contemporary women writers. As in the stories of their female predecessors, the effects of the literary ghost’s disturbing liminality vary in each of the cases under consideration here. Thus, the apparition in Weldon’s “A Good Sound Marriage” (1991) works as a contested mouthpiece of traditional sexual ideology, the oneiric revenant in Galloway’s “it was” (1991) is the figuration of unconscious desire, while the doppelgänger in Smith’s “The Hanging Girl” (1999), despite her spectrality, inhabits a less empty and more amiable world than that of real flesh-and-blood peoplegl
dc.description.abstractDesde finales del siglo XIX el género del relato breve de fantasmas ha servido de medio para la exploración de inquietudes femeninas. Las historias de fantasmas escritas por mujeres están protagonizadas por heroínas rondadas por espectros que encarnan tensiones internas relacionadas con la asunción de roles femeninos impuestos por la sociedad. El presente artículo analiza tres relatos de Fay Weldon, Janice Galloway y Ali Smith con la intención de demostrar que las escritoras contemporáneas continúan explotando el potencial del género para cuestionar la norma establecida y para articular conflictos personales, intergeneracionales e históricos. Al igual que en los relatos de sus predecesoras, los efectos de la liminalidad inquietante del fantasma literario varían en cada uno de los casos aquí tratados. Así, el espectro en “A Good Sound Marriage” de Weldon (1991) funciona como una portavoz cuestionada de la ideología sexual tradicional, el fantasma onírico en “it was” de Galloway (1991) es la representación del deseo inconsciente, mientras que el doppelgänger en “The Hanging Girl” de Smith (1999), a pesar de su espectralidad, habita un mundo menos vacío y más amable que el de las personas reales de carne y hueso.gl
dc.description.peerreviewedSIgl
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article is part of the Research Project Women’s Tales, funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Government of Spain (Ref. FEM2013-41977-P). It was also completed under the auspices of the Research Group Discourse and Identity, funded by the Xunta de Galicia (Grupo de Referencia Competitiva: GRC2015/002; GI-1924)gl
dc.identifier.citationSacido Romero, J. (2016). Ghostly Visitations in Contemporary Short Fiction by Women: Fay Weldon, Janice Galloway and Ali Smith. Atlantis, (Vol. 38, Num. 2), 83-102. Retrieved 5 May 2020, from https://atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/256.gl
dc.identifier.essn1989-6840
dc.identifier.issn0210-6124
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10347/22030
dc.language.isoenggl
dc.publisherAsociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN)gl
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/FEM2013-41977-P/ES/¿CUENTOS DE MUJERES?: LA NARRATIVA BREVE DE ESCRITORAS BRITANICAS CONTEMPORANEAS (1974-2013)
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/256/0gl
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2016. This work is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)gl
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessgl
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectGhost Storygl
dc.subjectShort Storygl
dc.subjectWomen’S Writinggl
dc.subjectFay Weldongl
dc.subjectJanice Gallowaygl
dc.subjectAli Smithgl
dc.subjectRelatos De Fantasmasgl
dc.subjectRelato Brevegl
dc.subjectEscritura De Mujeresgl
dc.titleGhostly Visitations in Contemporary Short Fiction by Women: Fay Weldon, Janice Galloway and Ali Smithgl
dc.title.alternativeApariciones fantasmales en el relato breve de escritoras contemporáneas: Fay Weldon, Janice Galloway y Ali Smithgl
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