Ghost, host, hostage: a poet(h)ics of vulnerability in Emma Donoghue’s The Wonder

Authors :: Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
Source :: European Journal of English Studies. 24:241-254
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2020.
Abstract: This paper considers how Emma Donoghue’s novel The Wonder addresses the historical phenomenon of “fasting girls”. Premised on the idea of the body as a condition for exposure, my reading of the nar...

Subjects :: Linguistics and Language
Reciprocity (social and political philosophy)
Psychoanalysis
Literature and Literary Theory
Reading (process)
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Phenomenon
Soteriology
Vulnerability
Art
Language and Linguistics
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Wonder

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