Trauma and the Fictional Self-Portrait in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Ana Teresa Pereira's As Rosas Mortas

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Autor(a) principal: Paiva, Ana Brígida
Data de Publicação: 2022
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/151339
Resumo: UIDB/04097/2020 UIDP/04097/2020 UI/BD/151107/2021
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spelling Trauma and the Fictional Self-Portrait in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Ana Teresa Pereira's As Rosas MortasComparative ArtsComparative LiteratureEkphrasisPortraitureTrauma StudiesCultural StudiesLanguage and LinguisticsVisual Arts and Performing ArtsLinguistics and LanguageLiterature and Literary TheoryUIDB/04097/2020 UIDP/04097/2020 UI/BD/151107/2021Found at the crossroads between aesthetics and referentiality, portraiture is a hybrid form of painting conflating inner and outer references. Although the perceived connection and 'likeness' between work of art and the subject being depicted seems to differentiate portraiture from other kinds of paintings, this relationship to a perceived reality is far from linear, particularly so when portraits or other works of art are represented in literature - a longstanding literary device known as ekphrasis. The present article will demonstrate how literary representations of portraiture (more specifically, of self-portraiture) can be used to symbolise a narrative's underlying themes and motifs, namely, in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye (1988) and Ana Teresa Pereira's As Rosas Mortas (1998). Elaine and Marisa, Atwood and Pereira's first-person narrators, are both painters creating and describing a variety of self-portraits inspired by childhood trauma, fragmented memories, and the subconscious mind. Artistic self-expression becomes, in these novels, the distorted and indirect medium through which Elaine and Marisa question, integrate, and accept the traumatic and, at times, the monstrous within. This article will compare Atwood and Pereira's use of ekphrasis and examine how fictional self-portraits can be used to explore the relationship between subject and self-representation - an essentially fragmented and unstable relationship, especially so for survivors of trauma.Centro de Estudos Ingleses de Tradução e Anglo-portugueses (CETAPS)RUNPaiva, Ana Brígida2023-03-28T22:19:52Z20222022-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article13application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/151339eng0873-0628PURE: 55185805https://doi.org/10.5334/as.74info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T05:33:46Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/151339Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:54:32.579235Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Trauma and the Fictional Self-Portrait in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Ana Teresa Pereira's As Rosas Mortas
title Trauma and the Fictional Self-Portrait in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Ana Teresa Pereira's As Rosas Mortas
spellingShingle Trauma and the Fictional Self-Portrait in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Ana Teresa Pereira's As Rosas Mortas
Paiva, Ana Brígida
Comparative Arts
Comparative Literature
Ekphrasis
Portraiture
Trauma Studies
Cultural Studies
Language and Linguistics
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory
title_short Trauma and the Fictional Self-Portrait in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Ana Teresa Pereira's As Rosas Mortas
title_full Trauma and the Fictional Self-Portrait in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Ana Teresa Pereira's As Rosas Mortas
title_fullStr Trauma and the Fictional Self-Portrait in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Ana Teresa Pereira's As Rosas Mortas
title_full_unstemmed Trauma and the Fictional Self-Portrait in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Ana Teresa Pereira's As Rosas Mortas
title_sort Trauma and the Fictional Self-Portrait in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye and Ana Teresa Pereira's As Rosas Mortas
author Paiva, Ana Brígida
author_facet Paiva, Ana Brígida
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Paiva, Ana Brígida
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Comparative Arts
Comparative Literature
Ekphrasis
Portraiture
Trauma Studies
Cultural Studies
Language and Linguistics
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory
topic Comparative Arts
Comparative Literature
Ekphrasis
Portraiture
Trauma Studies
Cultural Studies
Language and Linguistics
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory
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