Masculine Spatial Embodiment in Dracula

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1、EnglishAcademyReviewSouthernAfricanJournalofEnglishStudiesISSN:1013-1752(Print)1753-5360(Online)Journalhomepage:http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/racr20MasculineSpatialEmbodimentinDraculaJulieSmithTocitethisarticle:JulieSmith(2015)MasculineSpatialEmbodimentinDracula,EnglishAcademyReview,32:1,

2、124-139,DOI:10.1080/10131752.2015.1034950Tolinktothisarticle:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131752.2015.1034950Publishedonline:18May2015.SubmityourarticletothisjournalArticleviews:316ViewrelatedarticlesViewCrossmarkdataFullTerms&Conditionsofaccessandusecanbefoundathttp://www.tandfonline.com/a

3、ction/journalInformation?journalCode=racr20Downloadby:[111.122.198.185]Date:06March2016,At:01:15MasculineSpatialEmbodimentinDraculaJulieSmithDepartmentofEnglishStudiesUniversityofSouthAfrica47320443@mylife.unisa.ac.zaThisarticleprobestheextenttowhichselectedmalecharactersinBramStoker’sDrac

4、ula([1897]1998.Oxford:OxfordUniversityPress)undergoaslippageingenderandbecomemetaphoricallyfeminizedunderconditionsofarchitecturalconfinement.Strikingly,inDracula,StokersubvertstheconventionalGothicployoffeminineimprisonmentand,rather,exploresthenotionofmasculinecaptivitywithinenclosingspa

5、ces.ThisisevidentwhenRenfield,JonathanHarkerandCountDraculaarerespectivelyconfinedwithintheasylum,CastleDraculaandthehospital,andthecoffin.Underthesespatialconditions,themalecharacters’bodyspacesarealteredandbecomeconnectedwiththesocialconstructsascribedtoandsuperimposeduponthefemalebody.T

6、hesemutatingbodyspaceswillbescrutinizedthroughadeploymentofJudithButler’stheoryofgenderperformance,whichpositsthatgenderismerelyarepeatedperformanceofsociallyfashionednorms([1990]1999.GenderTrouble:FeminismandtheSubversionofIdentity.NewYork:Routledge).Theobjectiveistoindicatetheextenttowhi

7、chthenovel’sapparentinvestigationofmalegenderfluiditywithinspatialconfinementappearstoofferconfirmationofButler’sassertionregardinggender’sperformativenature.Thepurposeofthisarticleisnottopositthatspacedictatesgenderperformanceinthenovel,butratherthatenclosing