Why is the Cafe Sad?. The Gothic as a Mode of Representing Gender...
Rita Antoni
In Joshua Logan's film Picnic (1955) a smart and rebellious girl reads, with delight, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1943), but the tenant, a schoolteacher dismisses it as a 'filthy' and immoral book, which was almost banned from the public library. The fact that McCullers' text could have been portrayed as a scandal book is related to the way it subverts social expectations on gender and sexuality. Furthermore, it is a graphic example for the way the Gothic as an indirect, cryptic mode is applicable to the demonstration of gender anxiety. If we have a look at the critical reception of the novella, we can extend the examination of a single text to a broader 'case study' and see the way gender expectations work in society as a normative,...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-6800-3
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Дата выхода: июль 2011