A Woman by Nature? Darren Aronofsky’s <i>mother!</i> as American Ecofeminist Gothic by Alexandra Hauke

“…By exploring the histories of ecofeminism, the significances of the ecogothic, and the Puritan origins of American gothic fiction, I read the movie as a reiteration of both a global ecophobic and an American national narrative, whose biblical symbolism is rooted in the patriarchal logic of Christian theology, American history, female suffering, and environmental crisis. …”
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