Depathologising female depression: colonising women’s psychic space in Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You
Women have long been disproportionally pathologised as melancholic or depressive as if they are naturally passive or deficient. Specifically, depressed mothers are usually believed to be responsible for their children’s abnormality. Celeste Ng’s novel Everything I Never Told You (2014) portrays simi...
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Main Authors: | Zhou, Qiaoqiao, Omar, Noritah |
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Format: | Article |
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Department of English Language and Literature, International Islamic University Malaysia
2022
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Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/100893/ https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/ajell/article/view/2646 |
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