A Mother’s Milk: Motherhood, Trauma, and Monstrous Children in Folk Horror
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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.
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Monstrous Beings and Media Cultures: Folk Monsters, Im/Materiality, Regionality
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Amsterdam University Press
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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