‘I hate Women. They get on my Nerves’Dorothy Parker’s Poetry of Female Sympathy
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 2531-1654, 2531-1646
Año de publicación: 2017
Número: 38
Páginas: 65-88
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies
Resumen
La poesía de Dorothy Parker emplea la parodia para detectar y denunciar prejuicios misóginos en Nueva York a principios del siglo XX. Pese a las presiones de las revistas femeninas sobre la mujer y las divertidas bromas contra su propio sexo en presunta complicidad con el patriarcado de esa época, Parker ríe la última porque sus versos paródicos, que engarzan comicidad con crítica social, no solo pretenden entretener a su lector masculino. De hecho, su poesía creó una comunidad virtual de solidaridad femenina dentro de esta urbe hostil dirigida a las mujeres de carne y hueso que no se sintieran identificadas con la iconografía, prescrita o proscrita, de felicidad doméstica o de alegre promiscuidad. Parker ofreció, a las secretas destinatarias de sus obras, armas de supervivencia para que se resistiesen a los clichés femeninos que negaban la diversidad de una población femenina americana aún sometida a la autoridad masculina.
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