62989 20171017144945.0 doi 10.5209/rev_CJES.2015.v23.48592 sideral 101476 ART-2015-101476 eng (orcid)0000-0003-4402-0815 Ferrández San Miguel, María Universidad de Zaragoza The collusion of feminist and postmodernist impulses in E.L. Doctorow "Ragtime" 2015 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Many critics of Doctorow have classified him as a postmodernist writer, acknowledging that a wide number of thematic and stylistic features of his early fiction emanate from the postmodern context in which he took his first steps as a writer. Yet, these novels have an eminently social and ethical scope that may be best perceived in their intellectual engagement and support of feminist concerns. This is certainly the case of Doctorow’s fourth and most successful novel, Ragtime. The purpose of this paper will be two-fold. I will explore Ragtime’s indebtedness to postmodern aesthetics and themes, but also its feminist elements. Thus, on the one hand, I will focus on issues of uncertainty, indeterminacy of meaning, plurality and decentering of subjectivity; on the other hand, I will examine the novel’s attitude towards gender oppression, violence and objectification, its denunciation of hegemonic gender configurations and its voicing of certain feminist demands. This analysis will lead to an examination of the problematic collusion of the mostly white, male, patriarchal aesthetics of postmodernism and feminist politics in the novel. I will attempt to establish how these two traditionally conflicting modes coexist and interact in Ragtime. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FFI2012-32719 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MEC/FPU-AP2012-0611 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H05 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana Filología Inglesa 23 (2015), 97-114 Estud. ingl. Univ. Complut. Estudios ingleses de la Universidad Complutense 1133-0392 276448 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/62989/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 58355 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/62989/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:62989 articulos driver 2017-10-17-14:48:47 ARTICLE