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The uncanny as "home": Doris Lessing...

Seymour, Marilyn Dallman.

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The uncanny as "home": Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Keri Hulme, and Sheri Reynolds.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The uncanny as "home": Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Keri Hulme, and Sheri Reynolds./
作者:	Seymour, Marilyn Dallman.
面頁冊數:	271 p.
附註:	Adviser: Holly A. Laird.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-03A.
標題:	Literature, African. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3209621
ISBN:	9780542577727

The uncanny as "home": Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Keri Hulme, and Sheri Reynolds.
Seymour, Marilyn Dallman.

The uncanny as "home": Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Keri Hulme, and Sheri Reynolds. - 271 p.

Adviser: Holly A. Laird.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Tulsa, 2006.

Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Keri Hulme, and Sheri Reynolds, contemporary women authors writing from various racial, cultural, and class perspectives, present some realist texts that incorporate the uncanny. Writing both in agreement with and against Freud's 1919 essay "The 'Uncanny,'" these authors dismantle the binary oppositions of rational/irrational, magic/science, and sane/insane, and, in the selected novels discussed here, indicate an acceptance, not a rejection, of alternative realities and uncanny experience. Numerous elements of these novels correspond with Freud's itemization of uncanny phenomena, thereby signaling an acceptance of Freud's description of the uncanny. But these writers resist and revise Freud's theory when they refuse to present the uncanny as entirely frightening. Through the presentation of home as unheimlich ("uncanny" and "unfamiliar") rather than heimlich ("familiar" and "homelike"), the authors further revise Freud. In part because home is always already frightening in these texts, what traditionally has been deemed frightening in contrast to home and the familiar no longer appears so. Chapter 1 examines the ways in which Lessing populates The Memoirs of a Survivor with the uncanny and encourages her readers to acknowledge and embrace the possibility of alternate realities. Chapter 2 explores how Morrison uses cultural myth in Song of Solomon to locate the uncanny in both a cultural context and in the body. Chapter 3 explores how Hulme, also incorporating cultural myth, uses the uncanny in the bone people to examine the horrors of child abuse and to force her readers to look closely at the propensity toward violence, while also suggesting that individual and societal change is possible. Chapter 4 explores the ways in which Reynolds uses the uncanny in Bitterroot Landing to critique childhood sexual abuse and to introduce the possibility of alternate modes of perception and healing. This study culminates with an interview with Sheri Reynolds.

ISBN: 9780542577727Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022872
Literature, African.

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