Truth in Fiction is Truth Infection: A Study of Emma Donoghue’s Room
Inspired by the 2008 Austrian case of Fritzl, who locked his daughter in a basement for twenty-four years, raped her repeatedly and fathered her seven children, three of whom he imprisoned with her, Emma Donoghue’s Room (2010) is not a mere retelling of the actual story of kidnap and escape. Donoghu...
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| Main Author: | Ahlam Ahmed Mohamed Othman |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Studi Irlandesi |
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| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/14626 |
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