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This article argues that in order to appreciate Indiana’s reflection on questions of gender and its problematization of mimetic representation, it is essential to take into account the explicit gendering of narrative voice in the novel and pay attention to the textual processes which expose the narrator as a compromised figure. A focus on the homosocial dimension of the narrative framework of the novel which links the narrator to the male characters serves as the basis for considering how the performance of narrative masculinity in the text subverts the narrator’s omniscience and objectivity, and exposes the homosocial dynamic on which his cultural and narrative authority is constructed. Considered in this light, Indiana emerges as a significant example of a female author’s negotiation of the conventions of the realist form and its gendered ideologies.
Author(s): Harkness N
Editor(s): Powell, DA; Prasad, P
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Approaches to Teaching George Sand’s ‘Indiana’
Year: 2015
Pages: 118-126
Print publication date: 30/12/2015
Acceptance date: 01/01/1900
Series Title: Approaches to teaching world literature
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Place Published: New York
Notes: 9781603292108 pbk.
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781603292092
