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Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
City University of New York (CUNY)
Domestic; flight; Gothic; heterotopia; Sentimental; slave narratives
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The Heterotopia Of Flight: Resisting The Domestic, Sarah Elizabeth Davis
The Heterotopia Of Flight: Resisting The Domestic, Sarah Elizabeth Davis
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The familiar image of a woman fleeing danger is a well-worn convention of heroine-centered fiction, a plot device inevitably resolved when the heroine returns safely to her home and family. This dissertation proposes a new reading of that narrative by asserting that rather than serving as a space of protection, the home poses the greatest threat to an individual's autonomy. If we understand the domestic as a space in which bodies are ordered and, more specifically, gendered, classed, and raced, the trope of flight from the domestic can be read as an act of resistance to subjugation. This act is …