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Gothic Mothers and the Gothic Daughters They Create.

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正題名/作者:	Gothic Mothers and the Gothic Daughters They Create./
作者:	Hade, Eden T.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2022,
面頁冊數:	218 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-11A.
標題:	American literature. -
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ISBN:	9798438727583

Gothic Mothers and the Gothic Daughters They Create.
Hade, Eden T.

Gothic Mothers and the Gothic Daughters They Create. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022 - 218 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2022.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Memoirs, autobiographies, diaries, and first-person accounts have always been a part of the American literary world. To read something that an author has experienced first-hand brings a level of human connectiveness to the page that elevates reader pathos, empathy, and compassion for one's experiences and struggles within those experiences. By using the lens of feminist studies, maternal theory, and the past and present definitions of the Gothic and the Gothic female, I examine the damaged selfhood of the Gothic daughter-narrators as it correlates with their female relationships with their Gothic mothers in the following novels: Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle, and Kathryn Stockett's The Help. In this study, I extend, re-interpret, and modernize Ellen Moers's 1976 definition of the Gothic female in Literary Women with my analyses of the daughter-narrators who use a space of empathy to confront the horrors they experienced in their childhoods and adolescence. These horrors are the memories the daughter-narrators attach to their childhood homes and mothers of their childhoods. Here, I reimagine the modern autobiographical works and memoirs (and the daughters and mothers within the literature) as a part of Gothic genre due to both females' exhibition of Gothic tropes. These Gothic tropes include: silences and repressions; "hidden rooms" in which one seeks escape; the claustrophobia of societal expectations of female goodness and the Good Mother; the fears and anxieties that come with exposure of one's performative facade (or inability to maintain one's facade); and the "damsel in distress's" monomania as she seeks out points of exit from her entrapment. I utilize these Gothic tropes to represent and tell the lived stories of both the mothers and the daughters. I have found that the Gothic genre-and attributes of the Gothic genre and Gothic females-help explain the fluid mother-daughter relationship as both Gothic females evolve throughout the novel. A considerable amount of scholarship has discussed these works in terms of trauma, feminist, and maternal theory, but my dissertation focuses on the relationship between a mother and daughter, and how a mother's entrapment within her shame can be her daughter's inheritance. As the Gothic females of my study demonstrate, women who suffer trauma can pass that same trauma onto the next generation of female unless the daughter can, in some way, disrupt the Gothic cycle of oppression and self-destruction. However, this dissertation further argues that, because of youth, hope, and/or need to be a catalyst for her or society's chance, the Gothic daughter has opportunities for points of exit from her trauma, or, at the very least, a viable means to not follow the Gothic path her mother has carved for her. Here, in this dissertation I acknowledge the mothers' "bad choices" while also scrutinizing the daughters' first-person point of views as they re-visit their childhoods as adult writers. Ultimately, a Gothic female cannot escape her Gothic inheritance, but she can find a point of exit from her mother's mistakes and missteps so that the daughter can re-write her narrative as one that deviates from her mother's experiences amid patriarchal oppression, societal suffocation, and shame.

ISBN: 9798438727583Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Autobiography

Gothic Mothers and the Gothic Daughters They Create.
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