Parental Advisory: The Female Character in the Dark and Gritty Works of Christina Henry
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2020-08-19
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Author Christina Henry writes dark retellings of canonical children’s literature, turning them into dark fiction aimed towards adults. Two of her works include Lost Boy -a retelling of J.M Barrie’s Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) - and Alice – the first novel of a series adapting Lewis Carroll’s original work Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
The aim of this thesis is to look at the original works of J.M Barrie and Lewis Carroll and compare them to Christina Henry’s adult fiction retellings of them, especially focusing on how the portrayal of the main female characters in these works has changed through the adaptation process. The thesis conducts four close readings of the main female characters in the works of Barrie, Carroll and Henry, which are each analysed by using and relying on Judith Butler’s theory on gender and performativity. The conclusion of the thesis provides an overview of the findings in the four close readings and compares those to conclude how Christina Henry through her works expresses a resistance on more progressive views on gender.
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