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Wearing the Witch Identity as a Way of Becoming in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Wearing the Witch Identity as a Way of Becoming in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle./
Author:	Hong, Joey Junsu.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2022,
Description:	114 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-12.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International83-12.
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28962912
ISBN:	9798819376263

Wearing the Witch Identity as a Way of Becoming in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Hong, Joey Junsu.

Wearing the Witch Identity as a Way of Becoming in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022 - 114 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-12.

Thesis (M.S.)--Sogang University, 2022.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This thesis aims to analyze Shirley Jackson's last novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) through the lens of 17th-century New England history and queer studies. First, the thesis proves that the first-person protagonist Merricat has chosen to become a witch as a means of self-empowerment in her oppressive patriarchal household. Then, the thesis examines how one can relate Merricat's witch identity to the history of witch hunt occurred in 17th-century New England to demonstrate that the remnants of female persecution in early American history still remain in the U.S. in the 1950s and '60s. Furthermore, the thesis casts a doubt on the feminist readings of Castle, questioning whether one should perceive Merricat solely as a woman. The thesis claims that Merricat's witchcraft performance is partly rooted on the phallic power that used to be possessed by the patriarch, and the fact that Merricat has a command on the phallic power renders her gender identity ambiguous, making her into a non-binary genderqueer figure. The thesis concludes by suggesting how Merricat succeeds at liberating her household from heteropatriarchal order through a series of her queer witchcraft performances and recreates the household into a shelter for queer subjects.

ISBN: 9798819376263Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

American literature

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