“Take me stitch by stitch”: of Embodiment and Violence in Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-formed Thing

En 2013, la primera novela de Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, fue publicada. En una sociedad contemporánea católica y patriarcal, una joven chica irlandesa, cuyo nombre jamás se menciona, crece en una familia donde impera el abuso, y a la sombra de un hermano mayor que, cuando niño, sobrevivió de forma milagrosa al daño de un tumor cerebral, aunque éste le deja secuelas que la madre no acepta. Así, mientras la protagonista está en crecimiento, y ya desde el vientre materno, se le inscribe en un discurso en el que las figuras femeninas están subyugadas a lo masculino…

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In 2013, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Eimear McBride’s debut novel, was published. In a contemporary patriarchal and catholic society, a young Irish girl, whose name is never mentioned, grows in a household where abuse prevails and under the shadow of her older brother who, as a kid, miraculously survived a brain tumour which leaves him with sequels that their mother does not want to face. Bearing this, while the protagonist is growing up, and already since she is in her mother’s womb, she is embedded in a discourse where the female figures are subjugated to their masculine counterparts…