Narrating trauma in Takahashi Takako's 'Sora no hate made': perverse motherhood
This paper examines Takahashi Takako’s Sora no hate made (To the far reaches of the skies, 1973) as a piece of trauma fiction, and argues that childbirth, motherhood and infanticide are portrayed as traumatic events in the narrative. Drawing on the work of trauma theorists such as Dominick LaCapra,...
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Australian National University Press
2017
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