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https://doi.org/10.15291/SIC/1.5.LC.1

‘I can touch him now’: Harry Potter as a Gothic Narrative of Trauma and Homoerotic Sexual Abuse

Antonio Sanna


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In this article I argue that the Harry Potter novels constitute a Gothic narrative about homoerotic child abuse. The various confrontations between Harry and the Dark Lord are interpreted as representing the unavoidable encounter with what Ruth Bienstock Anolik has defined as ‘the sexual Other’ infiltrating the Self in Gothic texts. Specifically, I examine the re-enactment of trauma in the narrative as a typical trope of the Gothic. Harry’s progressive acquisition of knowledge on his adversary is therefore interpreted as a metaphor for the gradual re-assertion of repressed traumatic memories on consciousness.

Ključne riječi

Harry Potter; trauma; repression; Gothic; abuse

Hrčak ID:

132932

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/132932

Datum izdavanja:

11.12.2014.

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