Novel, history and subalternity: gender and ethnicity in Frankenstein (1818).
Keywords:
Power, Citizenship, Subalternity, Gender, Ethnicity, FrankensteinAbstract
Since the emergence of postcolonial studies, historiography has seen itself benefited from the
incorporation of new interdisciplinary perspectives that allow us to conceive the past plurally. Power-
relationships, individuals and how they integrate or not in societies are a problem which can be
studied in social sciences through, among other things, cultural productions from/in a concrete time
and space. With the goal of analysing how gender and ethnicity are a part of a hegemonic discourse
based on difference in 19th century’ society, we will focus on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) to
consider, on one hand, how the novel is useful in the study of the past and, on the other, how it brings a relevant perspective when it comes to reflecting on individuality and human relationships
regarding power from the constitution of two opposing models: citizenship and subalternity.
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