Girlhood as Storytelling and (Anti-)creation in Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle

IF 0.4 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Girlhood Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.3167/ghs.2023.160203

Anna Szirák

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Abstract

The power of imagination and the capacity for storytelling can mirror creation and God-like capabilities: anything can occur if one can imagine it. Observing this connection between narrator and God, in this article I analyze the representation of girlhood in British author Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle (1948). I show how protagonist and narrator Cassandra uses the framework of her girlhood to narrate and create the lives of those around her and examine the ways in which her power alters as she begins to enter the stage of grown womanhood. With a close reading that understands Cassandra's storytelling powers as Biblically structured, I consider the narratorial possibilities of girlish fantasy and father-daughter dynamics.

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多迪·史密斯的《我攻下城堡》中少女时代的叙事与(反)创作

想象力的力量和讲故事的能力可以反映出创造和上帝般的能力:只要你能想象，任何事情都可能发生。观察到叙述者和上帝之间的这种联系，本文分析了英国作家多迪·史密斯的《我攻占城堡》(1948)中少女时代的表现。我展示了主人公和叙述者卡桑德拉如何使用她少女时代的框架来叙述和创造她周围人的生活，并审视了她的力量在她开始进入成年女性阶段时发生变化的方式。通过仔细阅读，我理解卡桑德拉的讲故事能力是圣经结构的，我考虑了女孩幻想和父女关系的叙事可能性。

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Girlhood Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

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1.10

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the critical discussion of girlhood from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and for the dissemination of current research and reflections on girls'' lives to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers, practitioners in the fields of education, social service and health care and policy makers. International and interdisciplinary in scope, it is committed to feminist, anti-discrimination, anti-oppression approaches and solicits manuscripts from a variety of disciplines. The mission of the journal is to bring together contributions from and initiate dialogue among perspectives ranging from medical and legal practice, ethnographic inquiry, philosophical reflection, historical investigations, literary, cultural and media research to curriculum design and policy-making. Topics addressed within the journal include girls and schooling, girls and feminism, girls and sexuality, girlhood in the context of Boyhood Studies, girls and new media and popular culture, representation of girls in different media, histories of girlhood, girls and development.

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