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