RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Lost Children: Hearing the Past in the Silence of an Empty House
A1 Muñoz González, Esther
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
AB This article analyses Maggie Gee’s novel Lost Children (1994) from the combined perspectives of feminist and trauma theories. It contends that the sudden disappearance of the protagonist’s teenage daughter triggers a psychological quest for the recovery of her voice and self, shattered by a traumatic experience she had in her childhood. My analysis, which pays especial attention to narratological issues —since this barely perceptible, insidious trauma is expressed both formally and thematically— shows that Alma’s behaviour is representative of the worries, expectations and impositions that contemporary children and women are subject to in western society, still imbued by patriarchal models and rules of behaviour.
SN 2531-1654
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/27852
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/27852
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; Núm. 38 (2017) pags. 47-63
DS UVaDOC
RD 01-may-2024