Women surrealists were analogous to the central character in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel , "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There".These classic childrens' tales written by Charles L Dodgeson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll in 1865 and 1871 respectively and translated into numerous languages.This literary sensation was not only the most popular children's story in history but also one of the foremost examples of nonsense writing for adults inspiring an abundance of fantasy literature both in high art and popular culture.Alice, like the female surrealists, ignored proscribed societal limitations, traveling conceptually as well as geographically to explore new worlds.
In her 1944 film "At Land " ,Maya Deren created her own mythological voyage of the twentieth century in a non linear narrative that refers to earlier literature sources including Carroll's novel.Her film " Meshes of the Afternoon"seems to investigate the ephemeral ways in which the protagonist's unconscious mind works and makes connections between objects and situations.The loose repetition and rhythm cuts short any expectations of a conventional narrative, heightening the dreamlike qualities.As with her other films on self representation, Deren navigates conflicting tendencies of the self and the "other", through doubling, multiplication and merging of the woman in the film.Following a dreamlike quest with allegorical complexity the film has an enigmatic structure and a loose affinity with both film noir and domestic melodrama.
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