A Madwoman in a Cape Breton Attic: Jane Eyre in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees

IF 0.3 3区文学 0 LITERATURE, AFRICAN, AUSTRALIAN, CANADIAN

JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE Pub Date : 2004-03-01 DOI:10.1177/002198904043286

Pilar Somacarrera

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees (1996), an emotionally rich and often surprising and disturbing saga of four generations of the Scottish-Lebanese Piper-Mahmoud family, has so far been interpreted as a Canadian magic realist text, a critique of Canada’s official policy of multiculturalism and a deconstruction of hegemonic discourses about gender and race, and as a demonstration that race is a socially constructed concept, rather than a biologically significant one. None of these interpretations, however, has mentioned the numerous links which MacDonald’s text has with Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, although these have been acknowledged by the author herself in an interview with Eva Tihanyi:

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布雷顿角阁楼上的疯女人:安妮·玛丽·麦克唐纳《跪下吧》中的简·爱

安-玛丽·麦克唐纳的《跪下来》(1996)是一部情感丰富、经常令人惊讶和不安的苏格兰-黎巴嫩派珀-马哈茂德家族四代人的传奇故事，迄今为止，它被解读为加拿大魔幻现实主义文本，是对加拿大多元文化主义官方政策的批评，是对性别和种族霸权话语的解构，是种族是一个社会建构的概念，而不是一个具有生物学意义的概念。然而，这些解释都没有提到麦克唐纳的文本与夏洛特Brontë的简·爱之间的众多联系，尽管作者自己在接受伊娃·蒂汉伊采访时承认了这些联系:

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JOURNAL OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE LITERATURE, AFRICAN, AUSTRALIAN, CANADIAN-

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