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  • A sadistic nurse as a castrating mother in the contemporary novel [Elektronski vir]
    Kaloh Vid, Natalia
    My intention in this chapter is to analyse a monstrous maternal figure in two contemporary horror texts, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey and Misery (1987) by Stephen King. ... Theoretically, this chapter is based on contemporary feminist studies (e. g., Barbara Creed). Both narratives offer a horror scenario of a torturing, sadistic nurse as a castrating mother who performs an act of a symbolic castration because she does not want to be separated from her child. Thus a female body is identified with all that is loathsome, disgusting and demonic. Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest exposes male anxieties about female power and control. His cold, sadistic and vindictive nurse Miss Ratched takes pseudo-mother's role in her patients' lives. Her castrating power manifests in a psychological torture and repression of any desires, including sexual, in her patients by extreme medical means such as electroshock and lobotomy referred to as a 'frontal-lobe castration.' Stephen King's psychopathic nurse Annie Wilkens is also represented as a suffocating, infantilising mother, who seeks to consume the mind and the body of a best-selling writer, who becomes her prostrate captive. The act of a symbolical castration is performed when she removes his foot and a thumb, forcing him to stay in her power. Both images, presented as powerful parental figures, evoke masochistic fascination with the figure of a dominating evil woman.
    Vir: Transgressive womanhood [Elektronski vir] : investigating vamps, witches, whores, serial killers and monsters (Str. 121-127)
    Vrsta gradiva - e-članek ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2014
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 20588296

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    https://www.interdisciplinarypress.net/online-store/ebooks/evil-monsters-horror/transgressive-womanhood

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