Prévost’s<em> Histoire d'une Grecque moderne</em> or The Emerging Self
Abstract
In "Prevost's Histoire d'une Grecque moderne or the Emerging Self," I propose to read the eighteenth-century French writer's text as the struggle of an evolving feminine conciousness within a patriarchal universe. The heroine's quest for self-realization may be defined in Lacanian terms as the interplay between the Imaginary and the Symbolic, as well as between orientalism and western ideology. The heroine is indeed a "Grecque moderne," who challenges the Symbolic which rules the novel. The seeming progression of a female destiny develops into a cyclical pattern. Fragments of the life of a silenced woman remain at the end of this disquieting narration.Metrics
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