The maternal impulse as ghost
Three hauntings in contemporary women’s fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13005277 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Helen E Mundler (Université Paris-Est Créteil, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 153-164 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-0701 • E-ISSN: 2043-071X |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/fict.7.2.153_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2801600964 |
| Language | EN |
This article offers a critical reading of three short stories, each of which explores the extent to which its protagonist is literally, as well as figuratively, haunted by the desire for a child. Firstly, the notion of textual haunting is proposed through an intratextual reading of each of these short stories within the author’s work as a whole. Secondly, the hauntings undergone by the protagonists are analysed, both through close reading and through the notions of abjection and intergenerational haunting
Aesthetics · Art · Impulse (physics · Linguistics · Literature · Physics · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Philosophy · Psychology · Short Stories in Global Literature · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Highly cited | No |
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