“Like a Lamb Ripe for Slaughter”: Female Body, Law and “Domestic” Animals in Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites
Abstract The subject matter of this paper is the interplay of the female body, law and the technologies of “domestic” animals in the novel Burial Rites (2013), a fictionalised biography of the last woman executed in Iceland. Drawing consistent parallels between the convicted woman and animals - lamb...
| Published in: | Gender Studies |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
2016
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/genst-2017-0006 http://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/genst/15/1/article-p74.xml https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.1515/genst-2017-0006 |