“Power and all its secrets”: Engendering Magic in Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman’s recent adult novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013), presents the power of magic as an exclusively female concept. At the same time, however, it can be argued that the text subverts its own feminist potential in its advocation of motherhood as paradigmatic femininity. Gaiman’s...
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Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
2015-12-01
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| Online Access: | http://journal.finfar.org/articles/power-and-all-its-secrets-engendering-magic-in-neil-gaimans-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lanea/ |