Illicit Motherhood: Recrafting Postcolonial Feminist Resistance in Edna O’Brien’s <i>The Love Object</i> and Jhumpa Lahiri’s <i>Hell-Heaven</i>

Illicit Motherhood: Recrafting Postcolonial Feminist Resistance in Edna O’Brien’s <i>The Love Object</i> and Jhumpa Lahiri’s <i>Hell-Heaven</i>

Cultural constructions of passive motherhood, especially within domestic spaces, gained currency in India and Ireland due to their shared colonial history, as well as the influence of anti-colonial masculinist nationalism on the social imaginary of these two nations. However, beginning from the latt...

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Main Author: Dibyadyuti Roy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-02-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
domestic
space
public
private
patriarchy
mother
postcolonial
India
Ireland
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/1/29

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