BILDUNGSROMAN AND ROAD NOVEL: APPROPRIATIONS OF THE CONTEMPORARY FEMALE NOVEL
Abstract
The novel is a traditionally masculine and representative form of expression of the bourgeois world. Some subgenres such as the bildungsroman and road novel carry the strength of this tradition in its early days, but not without being widely revisited by feminist literary criticism, and, what makes it even more interesting, by women authors who write novels that can be defined as bilgungsroman or road novel. This appropriation by the woman, of a genre of typically male authorship and male characters, which places feminine protagonists on the scene, is the aim of this article, which focuses on the way the novels “A tecelã de sonhos” (2008) by Ângela Dutra de Menezes, and “All We Loved Cowboys” (2013), by Carol Bensimon, can be classified as bindungsroman and road novel respectively.
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