Reinterpretando “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao”: La hija ‘Educada’ y la Reparación Intergeneracional en Escape y The Island of Lost Girls de Manjula Padmanabhan
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Bildungsroman, Distopía Crítica, Educación, Reparación Intergeneracional, EsperanzaResumen
Este artículo analiza Escape y The Island of Lost Girls, de Manjula Padmanabhan, para explorar la ecuación entre la condición de hija y la educación, con especial atención al entrelazamiento de las figuras parentales en dicha ecuación. En ambas novelas, las trayectorias de Meiji y de su(s) tío(s), en especial Youngest, posteriormente revelado como su padre biológico, abren el campo para tal indagación. El artículo reflexiona sobre la cuestión de la educación formal que configura la condición de hija de Meiji en relación con las figuras paternas/parentales en las novelas. Además, el estudio descifra las importantes resonancias del conocimiento corporal en la escritura de Padmanabhan, un tropo narrativo subversivo que suele eliminarse normativamente en la configuración de las relaciones hija-padre, especialmente en el contexto indio. Asimismo, traza la trayectoria de la hija educada hacia la reparación intergeneracional, trayectoria congruente con la cuestión de la esperanza como forma de resolución en una distopía crítica. Estas discusiones sobre la hija educada se vinculan también con la novela de formación o Bildungsroman como género, reconfigurado mediante la difuminación de géneros como recurso en las escrituras de la distopía crítica. En este sentido, el artículo yuxtapone la iniciativa Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (BBBP), Save the Daughter, Educate the Daughter [“Salva a la hija, educa a la hija”], en el contexto sociopolítico indio, con el contenido de las novelas, donde adquiere relevancia la educación interrelacionada de la beti y del padre de la beti. Además de los conceptos de distopía crítica y Bildungsroman, el estudio halla vías de resolución en las teorías del conocimiento sensorial y de la reparación intergeneracional.
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