A map to (re)construct: fungi mapping and feminist literary criticism
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: This article arises from the so-called new female “boom” in literature. It makes visible the problems that this category has raised among women writers and literary critics to show how “purplewashing” operates. From this problem, the conflict that emerges with the feminine genealogies, which arises from the “purplewashing” carried out by the canon and the publishing industry, by removing its subversive or feminist character, is made visible. In this sense, in the face of the tendency to elaborate identity, hierarchical and binary categories, relational and multiple analysis models are proposed for the study of women writers, based on the natural configuration of the mycelium system, typical of the fungi kingdom.
Author: Ana María Cristi
Institution: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4386199037