Mouth to Mouth: Queer Desires in Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch.
This reading of Emma Donoghue's Kissing the Witch attempts to magnify the "queer moments," textual and formal, that any reader may (or may not) notice and (re)focus them so that their disruptions come to the fore, thus realigning the relationship between reader and text. Ideally, this reading proces...
| Published in: | Marvels & Tales Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 116 - 131 |
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| Format: | Literary Criticism |
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Wayne State University Press
2010
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