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T1 (Vulner)ability: an analysis of women in Paula Hawkins’s novels
T2 (Vulner)[h]abilidad: un análisis de las mujeres en las novelas de Paula Hawkins
A1 Flores-Quesada, María Magdalena
K1 vulnerabilidad
K1 Paula Hawkins
K1 ética
K1 literatura
K1 contemporánea
AB The notion of vulnerability has been applied to diverse areas of knowledge, particularly inthe last years. However, its denotation has been traditionally attached to negative ideas,such as weakness, passivity or susceptibility to abuse, which results in the victimisation ofvulnerable subjects. In this article I aim to reorient the notion of vulnerability, understandingit as a permeable and dynamic term that facilitates the ethical encounter among individualsand that helps vulnerable subjects to regain agency. With this approach, two very popularnovels are analysed: Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train (2015), and Into the Water(2017). Drawing from Judith Butler’s notion of the epistemological frames and EmmanuelLevinas’s ethical encounter, the female leading characters of the novels are analysed. In thisway, a reflection on the current ways of exploiting women’s vulnerability in contemporarywest societies is provided. This leads to conclude that vulnerability can be used as a tool ofresistance against patriarchal customs.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN e-2530-8424
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/19215
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 25-abr-2024