DEATH AS RESISTANCE IN MARIANNE KATOPPO’S RAUMANEN (1977)
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https://doi.org/10.33541/dia.v13i1.8199Keywords:
feminist literature, gynocriticism, ecriture feminine, literary representation of suicideAbstract
This paper aims to expand on the reading of suicide in Marianne Katoppo’s Raumanen (1977). Building from a long-established trope of female suicide in tragic fiction, the martyrdom was usually read as a form of loss or madness. However, using the synthesis of Elaine Showalter’s Gynocriticism and Hélène Cixous’ concept of écriture féminine to understand how women own their bodies through writing. I want to argue that by narrating her own life in the novel, Raumanen, the narrator, reclaims her own body and voice. Consequently, this reading will provoke a critical reading of how suicide in fiction, especially conducted by women.
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