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The other mother : Neil Gaiman's postfeminist fairytales

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posted on 2008-01-01, 00:00 authored by Elizabeth Parsons, Naarah Calvert, Kathryn Mary McInally
This article enacts as psychoanalytic analysis of Neil Gaiman's junior novel Coraline and graphic novel The Mirror Mask in order to position these two highly regarded children's texts in the postfeminist landscape of contemporary western world patriarchy. The interpretation concatenates the stories of the two female protagonists of these novels, Coraline and Helena, as exemplars of maturational stages in identity formation that demonstrate the ways in which feminine roles are currently circumscribed.

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Journal

Children's literature association quarterly

Volume

33

Issue

4

Season

Winter

Pagination

371 - 389

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Location

Baltimore, Md.

ISSN

0885-0429

eISSN

1553-1201

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2009, Children’s Literature Association

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