De waarheid achter het patroon : ziek vrouw-zijn als stimulans om rekenschap te geven van een onkenbaar Zelf in Charlotte P. Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper Ghent University
Like the author, the main character of The Yellow Wallpaper (1890) suffers from mental illness and – even more so – from the treatment thereof. Both Charlotte Gilman and her heroine react against their unfair treatments by telling their own story. This article elucidates the truth those illness narratives contain. I approach the short story, its narrator and its author from a gender-deconstructionist angle, focussing on the concept of ...