hwahockey.blogg.se - Inseparable desire between women in literature

The relationships in my own life have undoubtedly spurred my most intense introspection, forcing me to grapple with the space between who I am and who I want to be at times. Young, female narrators are at a point in which their futures are most malleable, where a relationship can shape the practical realities of their lives, or, perhaps more importantly, their sense of selves for years to come. But, internalized misogyny aside, I can think of little ground more fertile than being let into the psyche of a young woman in love. That topics of the body, the emotional, and the domestic are both undervalued and associated with women is no coincidence. But literary fiction about young women too often gets miscategorized as women’s fiction or deemed frivolous, the needs and worries of these characters regarded as more rom-com than Camus. It is a roadmap into the interiority of a specific character: the way they think, how their identity impacts their relationships, and what decisions get made in response to the socio-political pressures shaping their lives. The best literary fiction is in some ways a simple character study.