Women from the point of view of the Bukowskian narrator: the representation of the feminine universe in Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness

• Autor(a) principal: Azevedo, Mariana Rissi [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/138450; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/02-05-2016/000864540.pdf
• topic: Bukowski, Charles 1920-1994 Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions and general tales of ordinary madness Crítica e interpretação; Literatura americana - Séc. XX - História e crítica; Contos americanos - História e crítica; Mulheres na literatura; Feminismo e literatura; Misoginia na literatura; American literature

Russell Harrison (1994) recognises the male chauvinism of Charles Bukowski's work and argues that his novels must be seen in the context of the 'second wave of the feminism', a time in which Bukowski established himself as a writer, and which certainly influenced him. This point in the struggle for women's liberation is represented by books such as Sexual Politics, by Kate Millett (1969), and The Female Eunuch, by Germaine Greer (1970). Bukowski, known for his presentation of women as the objects of male desire, demonstrates a sensitivity concerning the objectification of the female body in the story 'The Most Beautiful Woman in Town', in which he depicts the protagonist, Cass, as vulnerable and in need of assistance. The dissertation situates this story in the context of the 64 stories of Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972) in order to demonstrate how exceptional its sensitivity with regard to women is in a collection characterised by its misogynism