| Abstract [eng] |
The Master Thesis analyses four texts of Jolita Skablauskaitė from the Gothic aspect – short stories “Time will cure” (1993), “Duke’s reflection” (2000), “Black light” (2018) and novel “Moonlight whippet” (1997). Drawing the field of feminine Gothic author’s texts selected are read in Lithuanian literature in the perspective which has not been reflected yet by coordinating the feminine power principles with the provisions of psychoanalysis. On the basis the conception of Julia Kristeva’s abjection it is formulated that all analysed texts are labelled by an abjection load – patriarchal culture is pictured as rejecting intimidating aspects of female’s otherness, which foreign to it – carnality, sexuality, magic power, particular maternal experience. It has been seen that the movement of rejection in the pieces activates different topoi of the Gothic fiction: collision between “I” and Other, isolation and transgression. The most significant Gothic topos of the creation by Skablauskaitė is considered transformation uniting the magic phenomenon dominating in all her texts. After analysing the pieces of Skablauskaitė it is seen that the text selected for the research are structured thematically in accordance with the logic of feminine Gothic code. The centre of these texts contains a protagonist restricted by a repressive male striving to save her subjectivity; therefore, she has to pass three stages: intimidating collision with Other, transgression and escaping, which may unfold in a radical form – female’s death. It may be concluded that the feminine Gothic expression in Skablauskaitė’s texts is used to make the horrific reality and to demonstrate what challenges a female under repression has to face with. |
