"The odd man out in the family?" Queer Throwbacks and Reproductive Futurism in The Fifth Child.

Autor: Hilson, Mica
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Zdroj: Doris Lessing Studies; Fall2011, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p18-22, 5p
Abstrakt: A literary criticism of the book "The Fifth Child," by Doris May Lessing. It explores the title character and his symbolic significance. It analyzes the alternative models of kinship depicted in the book. It investigates the challenges involved in reading the title character as a queer one and the breakdown of the bourgeois, heteronormative family.
Databáze: Supplemental Index