La locura de género y la duplicación de la discapacidad en Jane Eyre

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  • Sunanda Sinha University of Delhi, Delhi

Palabras clave:

Desire, madness, impaired mind, gender representation, objectification, disability

Resumen

Jane Eyre tiene una estructura bien diseñada de un bildungsroman que se centra en la búsqueda del deseo de Jane e ignora lo mismo para Bertha. La estructura conceptual transmite un discurso lineal para determinar una comprensión prefijada de Bertha, Jane y Rochester. En el caso de Bertha, la narración sólo se aleja de su "ser" para acercarse a su creciente locura. Su condición mental carece de una comprensión más profunda, sin embargo, se utiliza como un todo, y la mirada la explora en un continuo, en una serie de ignorantes pero dominantes barreras metafóricas a la normalidad en Thornfield. El artículo considera este punto de vista del autor sobre la enfermedad de Bertha como una construcción de un género paralelo y una conceptualización más potente de la locura. Al problematizar la locura, el artículo argumenta una narrativa cultural de representación que se ve afectada por una mente deteriorada de Bertha. Se cuestiona cómo la narrativa forja sistemáticamente una duplicación dentro de la cual ella es objetivada, influenciada, silenciada, limitada y característicamente discapacitada.


Palabras clave: Deseo; locura; impedido; género; objetivado; discapacitado.

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  • Sunanda Sinha, University of Delhi, Delhi

    Dr. Sunanda Sinha is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Satyawati College, University of
    Delhi, Delhi. Her areas of interest include Modern European Drama, Nineteenth Century European Realism, and Modernism. She has published articles in National and International journals on wide topics ranging from Modern Indian English Poetry, Kabir, Tehmina Durrani, Modern European Drama, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, etc. In her thirteen plus years in academics, she has worked as Teacher in charge of English Department, in charge of Army Girls Wing of NCC and Nodal Officer Twitter. In the capacity of Convener of Dramatics and Debating society, she has also staged/organised Plays and National debates respectively.

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2021-12-23

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Vol. 28 (2021): The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies

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Sinha, S. . (2021). La locura de género y la duplicación de la discapacidad en Jane Eyre. The Grove - Working Papers on English Studies, 28, 111-126. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/grove/article/view/6627