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„TIlFInnInGaR ERU ElDSnEYTI FYRIR HUGmYnDIR“
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við að halda sér réttu megin við „landamærin“ sem koma víða við sögu. Skrif Elísa-
betar lýsa baráttu fyrir því að marka sér stöðu í heiminum, til að heyrast og sjást, til
að fá að skapa og um leið endurskapa sjálf sitt, þau eru leið hennar til að glíma við
tilvistina og erfiðleika sem eiga rætur í bernsku. Skrifin eru útgönguleið og þau má
skilgreina sem sjálfs-sálgreiningu og þerapíu. En í skrifum Elísabetar felst einnig
persónuleg goðsagnasmíði sem hún tengir síðan baráttu kvenna fyrir sjálfssköpun,
frelsi og samfélagslegu rými. Við greininguna á skrifum Elísabetar er leitað í smiðju
ýmissa fræðikvenna, svo sem Simone de Beauvoir, Kate millett og Hélène Cixous.
Lykilorð: Skáldskaparfræði, kynjafræði, líkaminn, kynverund kvenna, íslenskar sam-
tímabókmenntir
a B S T R a C T
„Emotions are fuel for ideas“
The fictional world of Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir
This article deals with the authorship of Elísabet Kristín Jökulsdóttir, with special
emphasis on the autofictional novel Heilræði lásasmiðsins (The locksmith’s advice),
as well as other works that are based on autobiographical material. Elísabet writes a
lot about the female body, its desires and erotic longings, as well as how helpless and
weak it can be in particular situations. Her writing on the self, body and sexuality
centres on the opposition between love and rejection. The desire for love is the driving
force behind her writing and a deep and ruthless self-examination is at work in her
fictional world. This desire is closely connected to the female body and sexual drive
and Elísabet scrutinizes the nature of ‚femininity‘ and asks what it means to be ,a
woman‘. Elísabet describes the female body in all its nakedness and vulnerability and
shows how the body is the battleground where the main conflicts between self and
others take place. Elísabet frequently describes two oppositional worlds in her works.
There are conflicts between the magical world and reality, the father and the mother,
the child and the grown-up, psychological difficulties and ‚sanity‘. a divided self is a
persistent theme in her writings, as well as the struggle to remain on the right side of
the „borders“, which are frequently mentioned. Elísabet’s writings reveal a struggle
for marking a place for oneself in the world, to be heard and seen, to be able to create
and recreate the self and through her writing, she copes with existence and difficulties
that are rooted in childhood. Through writing, she finds a way out and the writing
process serves as self-analysis and therapy. In her works Elísabet also creates her own
personal mythology, which she connects with women’s struggle for self-realization,