Altérité et identité dans "Yentl the Yeshiva boy"d’Isaac Bashevis Singer
In Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story Yentl the Yeshiva boy, the female character disguises herself as a young Talmudist to flee the traditional role the community assigns to women and have access to the sacred texts. The text explores the multiplicity of identities, the conflict between the f...
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2008
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | In Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story Yentl the Yeshiva boy, the female character disguises herself as a young Talmudist to flee the traditional role the community assigns to women and have access to the sacred texts. The text explores the multiplicity of identities, the conflict between the familiar, social being and its secret, inner counterpart – its dibbuk. Yet the confusion of identities leads the character to a form of self-imposed otherness, deceiving others as well as herself and imperiling the social and natural harmony. Yentl's identity is mutilated – half-woman, half-man, neither a woman nor a man, her soul dwelling in an "alien body", she is exiled from her own self and, eventually, from the narrative itself. |
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