Queering Mothers in Michael Cunningham's The Hours(Kansai English Studies)

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  • Queering Mothers in Michael Cunningham's The Hours

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This paper examines the intertextual relationship between Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours (1998) and Virginia Woolf s Mrs. Dalloway (1925). In particular, it focuses on how Cunningham queers the notion of motherhood by rewriting Mrs. Dalloway against the grain of the heteronormative notions of reproductivity. As a gay writer, Cunningham challenges the orthodox notion of motherhood as a privilege and/or obligation of heterosexual women. In addition, by depicting queer mothers, Cunningham redefines his own relationship with his literary mother, Virginia Woolf. He resurrects the myth of the Great Mother to subvert its influence. The paper concludes that queer mothers in The Hours represent Cunningham's desire to overcome the maternal discourse defined by sexuality and sex.

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