Journal article
Feminist Depictions of Coercive Control in 'Domestic Noir': Ilsa Evans's Broken (2007) and Kathryn Heyman's Storm and Grace (2017)
Women (Oxford, England), Vol.35(1), pp.1-19
03/2024
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Abstract
Concurrent with increasing social and legal discussions of coercive control, literary scholars are turning their attention to analyses of an emergent genre labelled 'domestic noir'. Adding to earlier work, particularly that of Deborah Philips (2021), 'Gaslighting: Domestic Noir, the Narratives of Coercive Control', Women: A Cultural Review 32:2, pp. 140-160 and Meg Vann (2019), 'Genre and Gender: Reading Domestic Noir through the Lens of Feminist Criminology', TEXT Special Issue 57, pp. n.p., this paper contributes a therapeutic history of interventions for domestic violence, highlighting the history of the concept of control contextualized by its emergence from second wave feminism. Critical analysis of two novels, Ilsa Evans' Broken (2007) and Kathryn Heyman's Storm and Grace (2017), demonstrate writers centralizing feminist critiques of coercive control in domestic noir in the Australian context. This paper highlights the significance of women's fictional representations of coercive control as sites of discursive sociocultural resistance and temporal political contextualization within the genre.
Details
- Title
- Feminist Depictions of Coercive Control in 'Domestic Noir': Ilsa Evans's Broken (2007) and Kathryn Heyman's Storm and Grace (2017)
- Creators
- Josephine Browne
- Publication Details
- Women (Oxford, England), Vol.35(1), pp.1-19
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Number of pages
- 19
- Grant note
- The author gratefully received a Career Disruption Grant from the Australian Sociological Association (TASA) to support the development of this paper.
- Identifiers
- 991013225641802368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article