In this provocative work, Alicia E. Ellis provides readings of
Franz Grillparzer's dramas as proto-feminist formulations of female
figures who refuse the gendered constraints of the ancient world.
The revisionist perspectives of the tragedies recover a latent
feminist impulse in the stories of Sappho, Medea, and Hero as
identities marked by linguistic refusals. Activating new ideas of
narrative experience, Ellis transports the figure of the female to
the seat of language, testimony, and presence. Inflected by a taut
impasse with a culture not produced to include female speech, Ellis
shows how Grillparzer's adaptations of classical materials offer a
working theory about the ways in which new forms of language
highlight female energy around autonomy and agency providing a
corrective to previous cultural practices. A failure to comply with
social and political norms demonstrates how the three assessed and
then resolved exclusionary acts through rebellious discursive
performances that frame how contested identities can be thought and
reformulated. Readings in this study draw from the work of Sara
Ahmed and Judith Butler on cultural framing and cultural
translation in contemporary feminist critique. Ahmed and Butler
direct attention to the language of the texts, what they mean, and
how they produce that meaning.
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