Запах матери: гендер и социум в рассказе Светланы Василенко Хрюша

• Authors: Irina Sawkina

Title variants

EN

The scent of the mother: Gender and societyin the short story by Svetlana Vasilenko Piggy

• Languages of publication: RU

Abstracts

EN

The article explores the role of sensory feeling sand, smell and touch above all, in the image of social hierarchies and complex psycho-physical relationship of mother and daughter (the child) in the short story Piggy written bya modern Russian writer Svetlana Vasilenko. The author of the article uses the methodology of the feminist criticism and ideas of Julia Kristevaincluded in her book Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection are used for analysis. The article shows that the smell and touchin the story mark, on the one hand, feelings of shame and fear of marginalization. These are associated with both the social hierarchies and gender dichotomy. On the other hand, the image of these sensations is involved in the discussion of categories such a sfemininity, maternity, natural and cultural.

Keywords

EN

Vasilenko; senses; smell; touch; gender; sex; femininity; motherhood; Wasilenko; zmysły; zapach; dotyk; płeć; kobiecość; macierzyństwo

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Slavica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 158
• Pages: 329 - 336

Contributors

author

Irina Sawkina

• Тамперский университет, Finlandia