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Short, Kayann, author Freeman, Marion, committee member Mitchell, Carol, committee member Boyer, Harriet, 1936-, committee member 2007-01-03T06:39:13Z 2007-01-03T06:39:13Z 1991 http://hdl.handle.net/10217/82522 https://doi.org/10.25675/3.024691 Title page has student's name as Kay Ann Short. Feminist theory has shown how women's lives are paradoxically both marginal to, yet affected by, hegemonic discourses of power. However, as long as women's experiences are viewed singularly along an axis of sexual difference, placing paradox as a trope for female identity risks reinscribing a closed system of oppression based only on male-female relations, thereby foreclosing possibilities for oppositional strategies organized around intersecting locations of resistance. Mercé Rodoreda's The Time of the Doves, originally published in Catalan as La Plaça del Diamant in 1962, portrays a working-class woman's life in Barcelona from the onset of the Second Republic to the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a period she calls "a piece of history." Natalia's presence as both "articulate" narrator and "inarticulate" character embodies her paradoxical position as both outside and inside discourses of gender, class, and national oppression. Attention to the specific cultural contexts within which women's lives are both externally constructed and internalized allows a recognition of Natalia's silence and inwardness oppositional strategies of survival rather than as qualities of limitation and alienation. masters theses English eng Colorado State University. Libraries Catalog record number (MMS ID): 991017637469703361 PQ6144.S56 1991 1980-1999 Short (Kayann) Papers Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. Spanish fiction -- Women authors Women in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature "Too disconnected/too bound up": the paradox of identity in Mercé Rodoreda's The time of the doves Too disconnected/too bound up: the paradox of identity in Mercé Rodoreda's The time of the doves Text Master of Arts (M.A.) Masters English Colorado State University This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights (https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/). You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). open.access