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Anxiety, absence, anger and archetypes. The domestic familial and feminism in The Orchard Thieves and Camille's Bread.

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posted on 2023-05-27, 07:51 authored by van der Wetering, E
When it comes to using the word 'feminism' there's extreme caution . Young women are nervous about associating themselves with feminism, yet once they start talking about what it's like to be a woman, their views often fit a broad feminist agenda. It's the word that's the problem and the - in many cases - stereotypical ideas of what it represents. (Kathy Bail \Introduction\" from DIY Feminism 4) I regard fiction in other words both as the document and as the agency of cultural history. I believe it helped to formulate the ordered space we now recognize as the household made that space totally functional and used it as the context for representing normal behaviour. In so doing fiction contested and finally suppressed alternative bases for human relationships. In realizing this one can not - I think - ignore the fact that fiction did a great deal to relegate vast areas of culture to the status of aberrance and noise. As the history of this female domain is articulated then it will outline boldly the telling cultural move upon which I believe the supremacy of middle-class culture has rested. Such a history will re-enact the moment when writing invaded revised and contained the household by means of strategies that distinguished private from social life and thus detached sexuality from political history. On the domestic front perhaps even more so than in the courts and the marketplace the middle-class struggle for dominance was fought and won. (Nancy Armstrong Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel 23-4)"

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