"I Am Just As Much Dead as He Is"Community, Finitude and Sibling Intimacy in Katherine Mansfield

  1. Gerardo Rodríguez-Salas 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

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Revista:
Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos

ISSN: 0210-6124

Año de publicación: 2016

Volumen: 38

Número: 2

Páginas: 63-82

Tipo: Artículo

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Resumen

El presente estudio pretende explorar la intimidad fraternal en Katherine Mansfield como una alternativa al experimento comunitario que surgió tras el fracaso de la comunidad de amantes en su vida y en su ficción. El “palimpsesto de la mente” de Thomas De Quincey y su recreación de la muerte de su hermana en Suspiria de Profundis (1845) serán el punto de partida para entender la interacción entre autobiografía y ficción en Mansfield. El análisis de sus relatos “The Wind Blows” (1920) y “The Garden Party” (1922) mostrará la manipulación de la intimidad fraternal que Mansfield lleva a cabo tras la muerte repentina de su hermano Leslie. Su ansiedad frente a la muerte le hará buscar desesperadamente una esencia ontológica, similar a la de De Quincey, que camuflará tras su experimento con la comunidad perturbadora de amigos/amantes, tal y como la teorizan Jean-Luc Nancy y Maurice Blanchot. El objetivo de este trabajo es investigar la relación post-mortem de Mansfield con su hermano Leslie para demostrar una combinación paradójica pero efectiva de rasgos comunitarios operativos e inoperativos, según la terminología de Nancy y Blanchot. El uso en Mansfield de una escritura del cuerpo, corpus en palabras de Nancy, ofrecerá una interesante forma de canalizar el palimpsesto de De Quincey a través de un modelo de escritura cuya intención es acercarse a la muerte sin filtros simbólicos.

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