My Body Not My Own: An Intersectional View on Relationality in Fiction by Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich

This essay makes a contribution to the contemporary struggle against gender violence with an analysis of Toni Morrison's Home (2012) and Louise Erdrich's The Round House (2012). The article presents a transethnic comparison combined with an intersectional feminist motivation to highlight...

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Autor principal:	Silvia Martínez-Falquina
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Lenguaje:	CA EN ES EU FR GL IT PT
Publicado:	Universitat de Barcelona 2020
Materias:	women of color racist/sexist violence transethnic approach intersectionality relationality Women. Feminism HQ1101-2030.7
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b7c169dde9d944388797717165848dc12021-12-02T17:55:48ZMy Body Not My Own: An Intersectional View on Relationality in Fiction by Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich10.1344/Lectora2020.26.81136-57812013-9470https://doaj.org/article/b7c169dde9d944388797717165848dc12020-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/view/32520https://doaj.org/toc/1136-5781https://doaj.org/toc/2013-9470 This essay makes a contribution to the contemporary struggle against gender violence with an analysis of Toni Morrison's Home (2012) and Louise Erdrich's The Round House (2012). The article presents a transethnic comparison combined with an intersectional feminist motivation to highlight the complicity of racism and sexism, and it articulates a theorization of relationality as the way to counter the dissociation derived from violence. Arguing for the pivotal role of the women of color whose bodies are violated —sterilized, raped— in the texts, it offers a close reading of the indirect account of violence, the conflicted male characters, ambivalent symbols and open endings, and the connection to African American and Ojibwe myth. The article leads to the conclusion that relationality is the best response to the systemic violence of the coloniality of gender. Silvia Martínez-FalquinaUniversitat de Barcelonaarticlewomen of colorracist/sexist violencetransethnic approachintersectionalityrelationalityWomen. FeminismHQ1101-2030.7CAENESEUFRGLITPTLectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, Iss 26 (2020)
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spellingShingle	women of color racist/sexist violence transethnic approach intersectionality relationality Women. Feminism HQ1101-2030.7 Silvia Martínez-Falquina My Body Not My Own: An Intersectional View on Relationality in Fiction by Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich
description	This essay makes a contribution to the contemporary struggle against gender violence with an analysis of Toni Morrison's Home (2012) and Louise Erdrich's The Round House (2012). The article presents a transethnic comparison combined with an intersectional feminist motivation to highlight the complicity of racism and sexism, and it articulates a theorization of relationality as the way to counter the dissociation derived from violence. Arguing for the pivotal role of the women of color whose bodies are violated —sterilized, raped— in the texts, it offers a close reading of the indirect account of violence, the conflicted male characters, ambivalent symbols and open endings, and the connection to African American and Ojibwe myth. The article leads to the conclusion that relationality is the best response to the systemic violence of the coloniality of gender.
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title	My Body Not My Own: An Intersectional View on Relationality in Fiction by Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich
title_short	My Body Not My Own: An Intersectional View on Relationality in Fiction by Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich
title_full	My Body Not My Own: An Intersectional View on Relationality in Fiction by Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich
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My Body Not My Own: An Intersectional View on Relationality in Fiction by Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich

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