- Title
- Harry Potter and the terrors of the toilet
- Creator
- Mills, Alice
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/37882
- Identifier
- vital:623
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-005-9451-5
- Identifier
- ISSN:1573-1693
- Abstract
- The Harry Potter series focuses upon the toilet as a site for heroic action and a threshold between worlds as well as a more traditional place for boys to be bullied and girls to weep. This article offers a Kristevan reading of the toilets as abject in Harry Potter, and shows how this concept helps us make sense of wider issues within the series, especially Harry's uneasy relation to the maternal. © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.; C1
- Publisher
- Springer
- Relation
- Childrens Literature in Education Vol. 37, no. 1 (2006), p. 1-13
- Rights
- Copyright Springer
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; Abjection; Disgust; Harry Potter; Identity; Kristeva; Toilet
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