| Revista: | La torre (Río Piedras) |
| Base de datos: | CLASE |
| Número de sistema: | 000399539 |
| ISSN: | 0040-9588 |
| Autores: | Pittmann, Cynthia1 |
| Instituciones: | 1Universidad de Puerto Rico, Facultad de Estudios Generales, Río Piedras, San Juan. Puerto Rico |
| Año: | 2006 |
| Periodo: | Jul-Dic |
| Volumen: | 11 |
| Número: | 41-42 |
| Paginación: | 365-376 |
| País: | Puerto Rico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Tipo de documento: | Artículo |
| Enfoque: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| Resumen en inglés | What particularly calls the attention of a reader of Miguel Street (1959) nearly fifty years after its first publication is the way in which V.S. Naipaul represents female characters within gender prescribed roles, e.g. the mother, daughter, neighbor, and how race and class intersect to create gender behavior boundaries, especially those related to speech. Naipaul´s female characters in Miguel Street seem to be dynamic yet stereotypical representations of women. However, by noting the observations and perception of women through Naipaul´s narrator, we can uncover underpinnings of agency, voice and perceived power as they interact with gendered prescribed behavioral scripts. In Miguel Street, and in many other Caribbean short stories or novels, active and vocal female characters abound; however, in their vocality there resides a paradoxical silence. I examine the possible meaning of speech and silence in order to question the limits of agency for these characters |
| Disciplinas: | Literatura y lingüística, Sociología |
| Palabras clave: | Narrativa, Sociología de la mujer, Autobiografía, "Miguel Street", Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad, Trinidad y Tobago, Representación femenina |
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