Published: 2023-06-29

Physical and Socio-cultural Wounds of the Heroines of Contemporary Young Adult Fantasy in the Light of Corporeal Feminism

Weronika Kostecka Logo ORCID
Section: studies and essays
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.13419

Abstract

The subject of the article is the wounded body of heroines of young adult fantasy, understood as a socio-cultural construction and an element of female identity. By referring to the key assumptions of corporeal feminism (represented, for example, by Elizabeth Grosz, Ewa Hyży, and Monika Świerkosz), I analyze three novel series: The Mirror Visitor by Christelle Dabos, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, and The Jewel by Amy Ewing. I examine how the heroines’ bodies determine their place in the social hierarchy, how
the heroines experience the world through their bodies, and whether they own their bodies in a cultural, social, and political sense. I point to the importance of tormenting the protagonists’ bodies as an obligatory way to female emancipation.

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Kostecka, W. (2023). Physical and Socio-cultural Wounds of the Heroines of Contemporary Young Adult Fantasy in the Light of Corporeal Feminism. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (46), 113–130. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.13419

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Er(r)go 46 (1/2023)

No. 46 (2023)
Published: 2023-07-03


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

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University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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