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Snowden, Kim Louise.

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Negotiating the spaces of adultery: Domesticity and the feminist adultery narrative.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Negotiating the spaces of adultery: Domesticity and the feminist adultery narrative./
作者:	Snowden, Kim Louise.
面頁冊數:	212 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-04, Section: A, page: 1456.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-04A.
標題:	Literature, Canadian (English). -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR26797
ISBN:	9780494267974

Negotiating the spaces of adultery: Domesticity and the feminist adultery narrative.
Snowden, Kim Louise.

Negotiating the spaces of adultery: Domesticity and the feminist adultery narrative. - 212 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-04, Section: A, page: 1456.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia (Canada), 2007.

This dissertation examines the representation of spatiality in female adultery novels by women. I explore the ways in which the characters of female adulterers negotiate public and private space, and how adultery affects women's access and mobility in terms of domesticity and acceptable forms of femininity. I argue that in representation there are often multiple and conflicting spatial frameworks and that for women, negotiating these spaces can be a feminist act. I examine four novels within this framework that all deal with female adultery and spatiality---Possession by A.S. Byatt, Other Women by Evelyn Lau, Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson, and Brick Lane by Monica Ali. There is an anxiety present in these narratives concerning the ways that public and private space inter-relate and the gendered body negotiates that space. This anxiety is represented in these texts as a spectral presence - in terms of ghosts, haunting, or a warning of what is to come. The repetition and reproduction of this anxiety binds the narratives to a repressive and sexist literary tradition where Victorian values linger in the lives of the characters, their actions, and the spaces that they occupy; the female adulterers' narrative spaces remain haunted by their literary forbears.

ISBN: 9780494267974Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022372
Literature, Canadian (English).

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