Anarcho-Feminist Melodrama and the Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Abstract
In her article "Anarcho-Feminist Melodrama and the Manic Pixie Dream Girl (1929-2016)" Claire Solomon analyzes the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope as an apparatus of capture (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand). More precisely, her article models how such tropes imply modes of reading anachronistically and metafictionally that decontextualize gestures of resistance and conflate female writers, performers, and characters across time and place. Solomon offers a situated formalist reading of Argentine playwright Salvadora Medina Onrubia's 1929 drama, Las descentradas, revealing an avant-garde counterpoint of melodrama and metafiction as an ambiguous alternative to capture.
Repository Citation
Solomon, Claire. 2017. "Anarcho-Feminist Melodrama and the Manic Pixie Dream Girl." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 19(1): 6.
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Publication Date
3-1-2017
Publication Title
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
Department
Hispanic Studies
Additional Department
Comparative Literature
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2896
Language
English
Format
text
