Dec 27, 2009
Despite its apparent objectivity as “A summary report of the Yelcho expedition to the Antarctic, 1909-1910,” the story “Sur” is a surprising piece of gently subversive fiction, narrated by an unnamed woman some years after the events of the story take place. The surprise and the subversion result from the story's feminist stance and from the attendant replacement of the value of “achievement” by “what is large.”
In the early paragraphs of the story, its feminism remains latent, hinted at only by the items with which the report will be...
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