<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>“Hideous Kinky” presents the story of an English mother travelling in Morocco with her two daughters. As expected, this exotic journey is about the woman’s pursuit of spiritual enlightenment. Less expected, the story is narrated by her youngest daughter who constantly denies the story to the reader. Starting from the issue of unreliable homodiegetic narration, this paper proposes to analyse the effects of missing information in the text, and the reader’s subsequent responsibility for filling the gaps and disambiguating the story. As a method, the essay establishes connections between its theoretical investigations and Esther Freud’s novel.</p></abstract>

“Hideous Kinky” presents the story of an English mother travelling in Morocco with her two daughters. As expected, this exotic journey is about the woman’s pursuit of spiritual enlightenment. Less expected, the story is narrated by her youngest daughter who constantly denies the story to the reader. Starting from the issue of unreliable homodiegetic narration, this paper proposes to analyse the effects of missing information in the text, and the reader’s subsequent responsibility for filling the gaps and disambiguating the story. As a method, the essay establishes connections between its theoretical investigations and Esther Freud’s novel.

When Children Look at Us

Gender Studies

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“Hideous Kinky” presents the story of an English mother travelling in Morocco with her two daughters. As expected, this exotic journey is about the woman’s...

When Children Look at Us

Published Online: Feb 01, 2020

Page range: 48 - 57

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2020-0004

Keywords
gap, homodiegesis, interpretation, narrator, unreliability

© 2020 Olivia Eleonra Bălănescu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

When Children Look at Us

Published Online: Feb 01, 2020

Page range: 48 - 57

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2020-0004

Keywordsgap, homodiegesis, interpretation, narrator, unreliability

© 2020 Olivia Eleonra Bălănescu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
gap, homodiegesis, interpretation, narrator, unreliability