Confinement and the Transnational in Emma Donoghue’s Room

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LITTLE James Joseph

Rok publikování 2022
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Open Library of Humanities Journal
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Filozofická fakulta

Citace
www https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/8774/
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/olh.8774
Klíčová slova Coercive confinement; space; language; things; historical fiction; transnational
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Popis This article contends that Emma Donoghue’s Room (2010) generates its transnational effects through its manner of narrating elements of the carceral situation which its central characters, Ma and Jack, survive. Situating Room within Donoghue’s practice as a writer of historical fiction, the article studies the sources she drew on when writing her novel, the spaces the characters inhabit and the things that surround them, as well as the language used by the narrator Jack. It argues that, by focalising this narrative of coercive confinement through the worldview of a five-year-old child, Donoghue creates a text that is transnationally mobile in its approach to language, space and things.
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