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000062989 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-4402-0815$$aFerrández San Miguel, María$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza
000062989 245__ $$aThe collusion of feminist and postmodernist impulses in E.L. Doctorow "Ragtime"
000062989 260__ $$c2015
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000062989 5203_ $$aMany critics of Doctorow have classified him as a postmodernist writer, acknowledging that a wide number of thematic and stylistic features of his early fiction emanate from the postmodern context in which he took his first steps as a writer. Yet, these novels have an eminently social and ethical scope that may be best perceived in their intellectual engagement and support of feminist concerns. This is certainly the case of Doctorow’s fourth and most successful novel, Ragtime. The purpose of this paper will be two-fold. I will explore Ragtime’s indebtedness to postmodern aesthetics and themes, but also its feminist elements. Thus, on the one hand, I will focus on issues of uncertainty, indeterminacy of meaning, plurality and decentering of subjectivity; on the other hand, I will examine the novel’s attitude towards gender oppression, violence and objectification, its denunciation of hegemonic gender configurations and its voicing of certain feminist demands. This analysis will lead to an examination of the problematic collusion of the mostly white, male, patriarchal aesthetics of postmodernism and feminist politics in the novel. I will attempt to establish how these two traditionally conflicting modes coexist and interact in Ragtime.
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000062989 7102_ $$13004$$2345$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDepartamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana$$cFilología Inglesa
000062989 773__ $$g23 (2015), 97-114$$pEstud. ingl. Univ. Complut.$$tEstudios ingleses de la Universidad Complutense$$x1133-0392
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