The deadly houseDomestic space and sociocultural roles in sunetra gupta’s a sin of colour
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Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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ISSN: 2173-0024
Año de publicación: 2010
Número: 1
Páginas: 2
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Revista Nuevas Tendencias en Antropología
Resumen
The working hypothesis from which this article stems consists in approaching the literary text as a discursive space where cultural structures are re-/de-/constructed and cultural changes are observed, predicted, and even wrought. Studying literature not only as a reproductive process of cultural mimesis, but as an actual process of culture production, I analyse Sunetra Gupta’s fourth novel A Sin of Colour in an effort to prove that literary texts constitute an invaluable field of study for cultural anthropology that is not exclusively inscribed in parochial and time-bound ethnic identities. On the contrary, it offers an insight into universal mechanisms of cultural configuration. In particular, I will argue that Gupta uses the conventions and symbolisms of the Gothic genre to represent her characters’ perception of domestic space in order to signify their experience of the patriarchal family structure as that of an alienating dimension of imposition, oppression and repression.
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