From Invisible Child to Abject Maternal Body: Crises of Knowledge in Edna O'Brien's Down by the River

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Edna O'Brien's novel Down by the River describes the crises of knowledge engendered by Ireland's 1992 X case, in which a fourteen-year-old rape victim was forbidden to leave the country for an abortion. The novel focuses in particular on the crisis of knowledge provoked when the invisible Irish female child enters the symbolic order as a newly-gendered subject who is required to identify with an abject maternal body.View full textDownload full textKeywordsinvisibility, abjection, knowledge, maturation, subjectivityRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2010.511319