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000170970 100__ $$0(orcid)0009-0008-0657-6242$$aJiménez-Pérez, Natalia$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza
000170970 245__ $$aThe Haunting Legacy of Mother Ireland: Transcending the Madonna-Whore Binary in Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo (2024)
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000170970 5203_ $$aAs national-Catholicism became central to the construction of national identity in a post-independence Ireland, the notion of woman was restricted to a “static creature […] iconized by her connection with spirituality into a secular Irish Madonna [who] barely exists in her own right” (ap Hywel 1991: 25), and whose identity is inextricably linked to her (a)sexuality. In this sense, Sally Rooney’s latest novel constructs her main female characters around their sexuality, both through the perspective of a rural middle-aged divorcée, Margaret, and through the eyes of one of the protagonists, Peter, whose complicated relationship with Sylvia and Naomi will revolve around their roles as platonic and sexual partner, respectively. Haunted by their desire and how it transgresses the sexual and social norms embodied in Mother Ireland through the “traditional Madonna/Eve split” (Valiulis 2001: 154), both Peter and Margaret repress themselves to the edge of mental breakdown and psycho-emotional martyrdom. It is my contention that Intermezzo will place desire as its characters’ lifeline, erupting in one way or another from their self-imposed constrictions, and allowing for them to deconstruct their views on female sexuality in a narratorial game of sorts – externally for Peter and internally for Margaret – and thus be able to form a new identity based on relationality and mutual care instead of the exploitation of others or themselves.
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000170970 7102_ $$13004$$2345$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.$$cÁrea Filología Inglesa
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