replacement mothers and intergenerational lesbian love in Carol (2015)
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Todd Haynes’ maternal melodrama Carol (2015) invites a pre-oedipal reading of the intergenerational romance between a shop girl and divorced older woman. Carol situates lesbian desire in the maternal melodrama, a genre that has historically centered around motherhood, homosocial relationships between women and the hegemonic family unit (Byars 1991, 8; White 1999, 94). The maternal metaphors and mother/ daughter dyads that propel these narratives lend themselves to psychoanalytic readings.
replacement mothers and intergenerational lesbian love in Carol (2015)
replacement mothers and intergenerational…
replacement mothers and intergenerational lesbian love in Carol (2015)
Todd Haynes’ maternal melodrama Carol (2015) invites a pre-oedipal reading of the intergenerational romance between a shop girl and divorced older woman. Carol situates lesbian desire in the maternal melodrama, a genre that has historically centered around motherhood, homosocial relationships between women and the hegemonic family unit (Byars 1991, 8; White 1999, 94). The maternal metaphors and mother/ daughter dyads that propel these narratives lend themselves to psychoanalytic readings.