Charlotte Perkins Gilman

'The Yellow Wallpaper'; with 'Woman', Gilman's acclaimed feminist poetry (Aziloth Books)

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Produktbeschreibung

'The Yellow Wallpaper' is a semi-autobiographical short story drawing on Charlotte Gilman's personal experience of mental collapse, exacerbated by the paternalistic attitudes current in her day, a tale which doubles as the perfect vehicle for protesting the unequal status of women in marriage. In 1886, after the birth of her daughter, Gilman was struck with severe post-natal depression. Medical opinion at the time ascribed this condition to too much mental activity for the female mind, and she was prescribed a "rest cure". For an intellectual like Gilman, such forced inactivity was a disaster, and a full nervous breakdown ensued. In 'The Yellow Wallpaper' a young woman tells of a similar enforced idleness, and we watch with horrified fascination her slow descent into madness. Suffering from depression, she is forced to 'rest' in a barred room, where her agitated mind becomes obsessed by the room's yellow wallpaper, upon whose chaotic swirls she seeks to impose order and pattern. Gradually, the image of a stooping, creeping woman appears - held captive by the 'bars' of the main pattern - a potent symbol for the stultifying effects of both her personal life and society at large. Eventually, deeply unstable, she sees trapped, creeping women everywhere, and knows herself to be quite as confined as any within the yellow wallpaper. Although known now for her prose, Charlotte Gilman first rose to prominence through the excellence of her verse. 'Woman' - the central section of Gilman's highly acclaimed 'In this World' - comprises twenty-nine poems that expand upon the theme of female emancipation and cover a wide range of topics - from female suffrage through marriage and motherhood, to male vanity and willing female submission. Widely regarded in its day, 'Woman' has continued to be a source of inspiration for many modern-day feminists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Aziloth Books
• Seitenzahl: 86
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 102g
• ISBN-13: 9781909735880
• ISBN-10: 1909735884
• Artikelnr.: 44135001

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - também conhecida pelo nome de casada Charlotte Perkins Stetson - nasceu a 3 de julho de 1860 na cidade de Hartford, Estado do Connecticut, Estados Unidos da América. Veio a falecer na cidade de Pasadena, no Estado da Califórnia, Estados Unidos da América a 17 de agosto de 1935 aos 75 anos, apologista da eutanásia, terminou a sua vida tendo cometido suicídio por via de uma overdose de clorofórmio. Quer na sua autobiografia, quer na sua nota de suicídio, ela escreveu preferir o clorofórmio ao cancro. Faleceu rápida e silenciosamente.Charlotte Perkins Gilman foi uma escritora, novelista, ativista social e proeminente feminista (utópica). Gilman era bastante menos revolucionária noutros aspetos, dir-se-á até mesmo retrógrada à luz dos dias de hoje e conservadora na sua época. A determinada altura defensora do Darwinismo Social, acreditava que isso ajudaria à luta feminista. Opunha-se à miscigenação e defendia uma sociedade cuja harmonia se baseava no eurocentrismo racial.No entanto, devemos vê-la à luz da sua época, e que pese as suas perspetivas racistas e eugénicas, ela deixou uma obra de valor literário e artístico, e permanece para as gerações vindouras como um ponto de referência e grande influência para muitos dos passos do feminismo ao longo do século XX, mais ou menos radical.