Shirley Jackson

Plantilla:Infotaula personaShirley Jackson

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Biografia
Naixement14 desembre 1916 Modifica el valor a Wikidata
San Francisco (Califòrnia) Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Mort8 agost 1965 Modifica el valor a Wikidata (48 anys)
North Bennington (Vermont) Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Causa de mortinsuficiència cardíaca Modifica el valor a Wikidata
ResidènciaSan Francisco Modifica el valor a Wikidata
FormacióUniversitat de Syracuse - Grau en Arts (–1940)
Brighton High School
Universitat de Rochester
Burlingame High School Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Activitat
Ocupacióperiodista, escriptora de no-ficció, escriptora, novel·lista, escriptora de literatura infantil Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Activitat1940 Modifica el valor a Wikidata -
GènereLiteratura de terror, ficció detectivesca, memòries, literatura gòtica i ciència-ficció feminista Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Família
CònjugeStanley Edgar Hyman (1940–1965) Modifica el valor a Wikidata
Premis
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Lloc webshirleyjackson.org Modifica el valor a Wikidata
IMDB: nm0414047 Allocine: 94308 Allmovie: p317029 IBDB: 13717 TMDB.org: 70038
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Shirley Jackson (San Francisco, 14 de desembre de 1916 – 8 d'agost de 1965) fou una escriptora estatunidenca especialitzada en el gènere de terror. Va influir fortament en autors com Stephen King, Nigel Kneale i Richard Matheson.[1]

El seu relat més conegut és possiblement «The Lottery» (1948), que suggereix l'existència d'un tètric i estremidor submón en les petites ciutats de l'Amèrica profunda. El conte es publicà el 28 de juny de 1948 en The New Yorker i donà origen a centenars de commocionades cartes per part dels lectors.

La seva producció literària inclou sis novel·les, dos llibres autobiogràfics, nombrosos assajos, més de cent relats i unes quantes històries infantils.

L'escriptora americana no va rebre bones crítiques en vida. Els seus primers textos es van publicar en revistes sota el perfil d'escriptora ocasional, esposa i mare de quatre fills, que s'entretenia escrivint en les seves estones lliures.

Obra publicada

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Novel·les

Memòries

Antologia de contes

Contes infantils

  • The Witchcraft of Salem Village (1956)
  • The Bad Children (1959)
  • Nine Magic Wishes (1963)
  • Famous Sally (1966)

Relats breus (llista no exhaustiva)

  • "About Two Nice People", Ladies' Home Journal, July 1951
  • "Account Closed", Good Housekeeping, April 1950
  • "After You, My Dear Alphonse", The New Yorker, Jan. 1943
  • "Afternoon in Linen", The New Yorker, Sept. 4, 1943
  • "All the Girls Were Dancing", Collier's, Nov. 11, 1950
  • "All She Said Was Yes", Vogue, Nov. 1, 1962
  • "Alone in a Den of Cubs", Woman's Day, Dec. 1953
  • "Aunt Gertrude", Harper's, April 1954
  • "The Bakery", Peacock Alley, Nov. 1944
  • "Birthday Party", Vogue, Jan. 1, 1963
  • "The Box", Woman's Home Companion, Nov. 1952
  • "Bulletin", The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, March 1954
  • "Call Me Ishmael", Spectre, Fall 1939
  • "A Cauliflower in Her Hair", Mademoiselle, Dec. 1944
  • "Charles", Mademoiselle, July 1948
  • "The Clothespin Dolls", Woman's Day, March 1953
  • "Colloquy", The New Yorker, Aug. 5, 1944
  • "Come Dance with Me in Ireland", The New Yorker, May 15, 1943
  • "Concerning … Tomorrow", Syracusan, March 1939
  • "The Daemon Lover ['The Phantom Lover']", Woman's Home Companion, Feb. 1949
  • "Daughter, Come Home", Charm, May 1944
  • "Day of Glory", Woman's Day, Feb. 1953
  • "Don't Tell Daddy", Woman's Home Companion, Feb. 1954
  • "Every Boy Should Learn to Play the Trumpet", Woman's Home Companion, Oct. 1956
  • "Family Magician", Woman's Home Companion, Sept. 1949
  • "A Fine Old Firm", The New Yorker, March 4, 1944
  • "The First Car Is the Hardest", Harper's, Feb. 1952
  • "The Friends", Charm, Nov. 1953
  • "The Gift", Charm, Dec. 1944
  • "A Great Voice Stilled", Playboy, March 1960
  • "Had We But World Enough", Spectre, Spring 1940
  • "Happy Birthday to Baby", Charm, Nov. 1952
  • "Home", Ladies' Home Journal, Aug. 1965
  • "The Homecoming", Charm, April 1945
  • "The House", Woman's Day, May 1952
  • "I Don't Kiss Strangers", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1995)
  • "An International Incident", The New Yorker, Sept. 12, 1943
  • "I.O.U.", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1995)
  • "The Island," New Mexico Quarterly Review, 1950, vol. 3
  • "It Isn't the Money", The New Yorker, Aug. 25, 1945
  • "It's Only a Game", Harper's, May 1956
  • "Journey with a Lady", Harper's, July 1952
  • "Liaison a la Cockroach", Syracusan, April 1939
  • "Little Dog Lost", Charm, Oct. 1943
  • "A Little Magic", Woman's Home Companion, Jan. 1956
  • "Little Old Lady", Mademoiselle, Sept. 1944
  • "The Lottery", The New Yorker, June 26, 1948
  • "Louisa, Please Come Home", Ladies' Home Journal, May 1960
  • "The Lovely Night", Collier's, April 8, 1950
  • "Lucky to Get Away", Woman's Day, Aug. 1953
  • "The Man in the Woods", The New Yorker, April 28, 2014
  • "Men with Their Big Shoes", Yale Review, March 1947
  • "The Missing Girl", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Dec. 1957
  • "Monday Morning", Woman's Home Companion, Nov. 1951
  • "The Most Wonderful Thing", Good Housekeeping, June 1952
  • "Mother Is a Fortune Hunter", Woman's Home Companion, May 1954
  • "Mrs. Melville Makes a Purchase", Charm, Oct. 1951
  • "My Friend", Syracusan, Dec. 1938
  • "My Life in Cats", Spectre, Summer 1940
  • "My Life with R.H. Macy", The New Republic, Dec. 22, 1941
  • "My Son and the Bully", Good Housekeeping, Oct. 1949
  • "Nice Day for a Baby", Woman's Home Companion, July 1952
  • "Night We All Had Grippe", Harper's, Jan. 1952
  • "Nothing to Worry About", Charm, July 1953
  • "The Omen", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1958
  • "On the House", The New Yorker, Oct. 30, 1943
  • "One Last Chance to Call", McCall's, April 1956
  • "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts", The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Jan. 1955
  • "The Order of Charlotte's Going", Charm, July 1954
  • "Pillar of Salt", Mademoiselle, Oct. 1948
  • "Paranoia", The New Yorker, August 5, 2013
  • "The Possibility of Evil", The Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 18, 1965
  • "Queen of the May", McCall's, April 1955
  • "The Renegade", Harper's, Nov. 1949
  • "Root of Evil", Fantastic, March–April 1953
  • "The Second Mrs. Ellenoy", Reader's Digest, July 1953
  • "Seven Types of Ambiguity", Story, 1943
  • "Shopping Trip", Woman's Home Companion, June 1953
  • "The Smoking Room", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1995)
  • "The Sneaker Crisis", Woman's Day, Oct. 1956
  • "So Late on Sunday Morning", Woman's Home Companion, Sept. 1953
  • "The Strangers", Collier's, May 10, 1952
  • "Strangers in Town", The Saturday Evening Post, May 30, 1959
  • "Summer Afternoon", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1995)
  • "The Summer People", Charm, 1950
  • "The Third Baby's the Easiest", Harper's, May 1949
  • "The Tooth", The Hudson Review, 1949, vol. 1, no. 4
  • "Trial by Combat", The New Yorker, Dec. 16, 1944
  • "The Very Strange House Next Door", Just an Ordinary Day (Bantam, 1995)
  • "The Villager", The American Mercury, Aug. 1944
  • "Visions of Sugarplums", Woman's Home Companion, Dec. 1952
  • "When Things Get Dark", The New Yorker, Dec. 30, 1944
  • "Whistler's Grandmother", The New Yorker, May 5, 1945
  • "The Wishing Dime", Good Housekeeping, Sept. 1949
  • "Worldly Goods", Woman's Day, May 1953
  • "Y and I", Syracusan, Oct. 1938
  • "Y and I and the Ouija Board", Syracusan, Nov. 1938
  • "The Witch", 1949

Premis i reconeixements

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Referències

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  1. ↑ «Shirley Jackson» (en anglès). Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Consulta: 8 juny 2020].
  2. ↑ Pagès Jordà, Vicenç «Els fantasmes som nosaltres». Cultura (El Punt Avui), 12-12-2014, p. 3.

Bibliografia

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  • King, Stephen. Danse Macabre. Everest House, 1981.
  • Kittredge, Mary. "The Other Side of Magic: A Few Remarks About Shirley Jackson", in Darrell Schweitzer ed., Discovering Modern Horror Fiction. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, July 1985, pp. 3–12.
  • Kosenko, Peter. "A Reading of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery Arxivat 2020-08-12 a Wayback Machine.. New Orleans Review, vol. 12, no. 1 (Spring 1985), pp. 27–32.
  • Murphy, Bernice. Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy.
  • Oppenheimer, Judy. Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson. New York: Putnam, 1988.
  • Shapiro, Laura. Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America.
  • Shirley Jackson Papers. Library of Congress, Washington DC.