Women, Role Failure, and the Nuclear Family in Stephen King’s The Shining
While Stephen King’s The Shining (1997) features a hotel haunted by ghosts, the main female character Wendy Torrance is much more haunted by her fear of failing to fulfill her gender role within the structure of the traditional, white, American nuclear family. In this paper, I analyze how the fear...
Main Author: | Kyra McKauffley |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Alberta Library
2023-09-01
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Series: | Spectrum |
Online Access: | https://spectrumjournal.ca/index.php/spectrum/article/view/197 |
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