A Mother’s Milk: Motherhood, Trauma, and Monstrous Children in Folk Horror

Maguire, Emma

Abstract

In A Mother’s Milk I use the supernatural tropes of Folk Horror to explore the dark psychological territory of maternal trauma. The figure of the changeling, which has appeared in several works of Folk Horror, is underpinned by the mother-child bond (which gives the mother a special ability to know her own child from an identical copy) as well as the maternal fear of the abducted child. As such, the changeling story is ripe with possibility for exploring themes of trauma and mental illness in relation to dysfunctional mother-child relationships.

Journal

N/A

Publication Name

Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/Materiality, Regionality

Volume

N/A

ISBN/ISSN

978946372634

Edition

N/A

Issue

N/A

Pages Count

Location

N/A

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Publisher Url

N/A

Publisher Location

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Publish Date

N/A

Url

N/A

Date

N/A

EISSN

N/A

DOI

N/A