Battles from below: a literature of oppression |
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| Authors: | Emily Gilbert Deborah Carter Park Paul Simpson-Housley Jamie S Scott |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Geography, University of Bristol, University Road, BS8 1SS Bristol, UK;(2) Department of Geography, Queen's University, Mackintosh-Corry Hall, K7L-3N6 Kingston, Ontario, Canada;(3) Department of Geography, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J-1P3 North York, Ontario, Canada;(4) Division of Humanities, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J-1P3 North York, Ontario, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Janet Frame is a New Zealand writer who was institutionalized for nearly nine years in mental illness hospitals. Her experiences have been fictionalized in her novel, Faces in the Water, and it is these novelistic representations of the asylum that we explore in this paper. As Frame has suggested in her second volume of autobiography, An Angel at My Table, there is a personal, geographic and linguistic exclusiveness to the asylum in that the patients are stripped of their identity and forced to conform. How these themes are developed in Faces in the Water will be the focus of this paper. |
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