Transgressing Borders Intersectionality and Genre in Thom Fitzgerald’s Cloudburst (2010)
Keywords:
nursing home, escape, genre, intersectionality, spaceAbstract
This paper discusses aspects of identity and intersectionality in Thom Fitzgerald’s road movie Cloudburst and focusses on the role genre conventions play for the construction of the protagonists’ identities. Canadian nursing home escape stories and their interpretations can be seen as textual interventions in the deconstruction of the limited spatiality of old age and counteract stereotyping on several levels of intersectionality.
Violare i confini: intersezionalità e genere in Cloudburst (2010) di Thom Fitzgerald
Questo saggio discute alcuni aspetti legati all’identità e alla intersezionalità nel road movie Cloudburst, focalizzandosi su come le convenzioni di genere influenzino la costruzione dell’identità delle protagoniste. Le storie sulla fuga dalle case di riposo e le loro interpretazioni possono essere viste come interventi testuali nella decostruzione della spazialità limitata riservata agli anziani e nella lotta contro la stereotipizzazione a diversi livelli di intersezionalità.
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