The Fragmented Self and Strategies of Subversive Construction: Ania Walwicz and Rosa Cappiello
Autor
Ballyn, SusanFecha
1994Resumen
This article is an attempt to offer a critical vision of the work of
Ania Walwicz and Rosa Cappiello within the context of non-Anglophone
writing in Australia. Before entering upon a critical discussion of the
works concerned, a brief historical introduction to Australian literature
is necessary to show how preoccupations with national identity and
exile have been central to its development and how these preoccupations
also form a thematic core in all migrant writing. While the analysis
of the works concentrates on both the feminist and migrant consciousness
at work in the texts to reveal how they attempt to restructure existing
monocultural constructs of national identity as diverse, plural and
multiracial by subverting the patriarchal structures imposed upon them
as women and migrants and how this in turn leads to the freeing of the
repressed and silenced self, it also seeks to analyse the central or peripheral
nature of such writing with regard to the canon.