Creeping into freedom: woman’s body in “The yellow wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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woman’s body, feminist literary criticism, patriarchal repression, creep, The Yellow

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Even though the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892), by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, has received much attention, especially from feminist literary criticism, there have been relatively few considerations on the main character’s body and on how it relates to her ordeal under patriarchal repression. By examining the physical aspect of the narrator’s experience, this article investigates two main hypotheses: (1) that the narrator’s body is controlled as a means of controlling her mind, but this fails when she uses her mind to free her body; and (2) that the “creeping” movement obsessively mentioned by the narrator can be interpreted as a subversion. This second proposition counterpoints the notion that the narrator’s descent into madness is proof of male triumph over female freedom.

Biografia do Autor

Leticia Rocha Duarte, Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo

Graduação em Letras Inglês - Tradução e Interpretação Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (2018), Mestrado em Pedagogia da Motricidade Humana pela UNESP - Rio Claro (2009), possui Especialização em Fisiologia do Exercício pela UNICAMP (2005),possui Graduação em Educação Física pela Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (2004).

Cynthia Beatrice Costa, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Cynthia Beatrice Costa é mestre em literatura e crítica literária pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) e doutora em Estudos da Tradução pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), com tese sobre a recepção de Machado de Assis no sistema literário anglófono. Atua como professora do curso de Tradução da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) e é membro permanente da Pós-Graduação em Estudos Literários (PPLET-UFU) e da Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução (PGET-UFSC). 

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2021-01-21

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DUARTE, Leticia Rocha; COSTA, Cynthia Beatrice. Creeping into freedom: woman’s body in “The yellow wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. REVELL - REVISTA DE ESTUDOS LITERÁRIOS DA UEMS, [S. l.], v. 2, n. 25, p. 261–283, 2021. Disponível em: https://periodicosonline.uems.br/index.php/REV/article/view/5266. Acesso em: 29 mar. 2024.