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The Holy Bitch That Can Be a Witch in The Grass Harp
Yasemin Güniz Sertel
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2014.07.003
Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
This paper comprises an analysis of the modernist American writer Truman Capote’s novel The Grass Harp (1951) from a feminist perspective. While the novel treats the ostracizing of four people by the oppressive mindset of a patriarchal society, the female character Dolly Talbo who leads the banished group to live in a tree house becomes the embodiment of a Goddess image introduced by the New Age Spiritualities and Neopaganism. Creating a new culture for women as an alternative to the patriarchal system, in which concepts such as love, herbalism, and magic are sanctioned as sacred, and offering this culture as an opportunity to all human beings, Dolly Talbo can be perceived as a contemporary holy witch who becomes an occult and undermining threat to the patriarchal order.
Witchcraft, Neopaganism, New Age Spirituality, feminism, patriarchal system
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