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    Espacios de intimidad en La voz dormida: La configuración del espacio y su efecto en la lectura
    (2020-06-15) Madouas, Sandrine; University of Gothenburg/Department of Languages and Literatures; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer
    The aim of this essay is to study the configuration of the literary space of intimacy and its effect on the act of reading, in the novel The Sleeping Voice of Dulce Chacón. In order to accomplish this, textual strategies, that are used in three chosen scenes of the first part of the novel, are analysed and it is also exposed how and in which measure these strategies involve the reader in the individual experience of certain characters. Thus, the study reveals that the novels creates a space of intimacy through the polydimensional aspect of the space carried by the literary language. It also reveals that this configuration, by means of the textual strategies, involves the reader to feel and empathize with the character. The text, thanks to its words and their disposition as well as the narratives techniques, opens a space of intimacy of certain characters inviting the reader to experience the intimacy.
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    Resonancias góticas del fantástico. Paisaje sonoro y violencia doméstica en Raimunda Torres y Quiroga
    (2022-02-24) Madouas, Sandrine; University of Gothenburg/Department of Languages and Literatures; Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer
    Sound has a great power in the production of emotions and can affect the listener as well as convey information. In three of her fantastic short stories published in the 1870s, Raimunda Torres y Quiroga, an Argentine author, addresses the issue of gender violence and configures audible worlds. Drawing from the study of soundscape of the three short stories, this thesis will analyse how, through gothic elements, the fantastic denatures a normalized event, such as violence against women. The study reveals that the soundscape is placed at the centre of the characters’ relationship and communicates invisible and unspeakable elements which destabilize the patriarchal system of the time, altering the gender power relations. The various resonances that take place produce violent and uncontrollable emotions in the characters thus questioning the masculine authority. Furthermore, the study exposes that, within the sociohistorical and political context in which the short stories were published, sound has the potential to highlight violence against women, as well as to highlight the defence of women’s rights that the author supported.