Anarcho-feminist melodrama and the manic pixie dream girl

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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.

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Solomon, C. T. (2017). Anarcho-feminist melodrama and the manic pixie dream girl. CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2896

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