Revisiting Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar as a feminist response to McCarthyism
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Título: | Revisiting Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar as a feminist response to McCarthyism |
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Autor/es: | Arce Álvarez, María Laura |
Palabras clave: | Women’s literature | Feminist theory | Gender Studies | McCarthyism | Sylvia Plath |
Fecha de publicación: | ene-2024 |
Editor: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa |
Cita bibliográfica: | Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses. 2024, 40: 43-62. https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.2024.40.03 |
Resumen: | The present article introduces a feminist and political analysis of Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar, considering it a cultural response to McCarthyism. In order to do that, the article focuses on the importance Plath gives to the Rosenberg’s case in the novel and particularly in the relevance Ethel Rosenberg’s death sentence had to awaken a female consciousness for the women of the 1950s in America. The female body turns fundamental for a feminist struggle that Plath creates in the novel to deconstruct the imposed female roles that helped McCarthy control the private lives of the Americans. Sixty years after Plath’s death and its publication, The Bell Jar becomes a fundamental text for understanding contemporary feminist literature. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/140502 |
ISSN: | 0214-4808 | 2171-861X (Internet) |
DOI: | 10.14198/raei.2024.40.03 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2024 María Laura Arce Álvarez. This work is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.2024.40.03 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses - 2024, No. 40 |
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