Articles with "absent mother" as a keyword



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Absent Mother and the Wolf in Little Red Riding Hood

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Published in 2017 at "Neophilologus"

DOI: 10.1007/s11061-017-9518-8

Abstract: Focusing on Little Red Riding Hood my article examines the cultural and biopolitical links between the absent mother and her evil doppelgänger/counterpart, the wolf. As a figure that was demonised from the middle ages on… read more here.

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Identity and the absent mother in Atta's Everything Good will Come

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Published in 2017 at "Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde"

DOI: 10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.54i2.1093

Abstract: Everything good will come presents the trope of the absent mother which scholars have identified as a significant feature of third generation Nigerian women prose fiction writings. Besides the trope of the absent mother, religion… read more here.

Keywords: good come; absent mother; everything good;