Gender, Class, and Human/Non-Human Fluidity in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniards’ féerie, The White Cat

Open Cultural Studies

Duggan Anne E.¹ 

[1] Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Wayne State University, 96 Maplefield Road, Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069, United States of America;

关键词: aulnoy;    marie-catherine d’;    théodore and hippolyte cogniard;    gender;    class;    féerie;   

DOI  :  10.1515/culture-2020-0132

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The Frères Cogniard produced immensely popular vaudeville féeries in the nineteenth century and among them most popular was The White Cat (1852), which grafts two tales together by Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy: “The White Cat” and “Belle-Belle, or the chevalier Fortuné.” The féerie foregrounds gender, class, human/thing, and species fluidity, which undermines hierarchies supported by dichotomies that in very similar ways privilege men over women, the upperclass over lowerclass, persons over things, and human animals over non-human animals. The essay traces these different forms of fluidity, examining the role of marvelous in general and metamorphosis in particular in problematizing normative structures of identity and revealing their arbitrary nature.

【 授权许可】

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