“Like a Lamb Ripe for Slaughter”: Female Body, Law and “Domestic” Animals in Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites
The subject matter of this paper is the interplay of the female body, law and the technologies of “domestic” animals in the novel Burial Rites (2013), a fictionalised biography of the last woman executed in Iceland. Drawing consistent parallels between the convicted woman and animals - lambs in the...
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| Language: | English |
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2016-12-01
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| Series: | Gender Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/genst-2017-0006 |