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The Grotesque

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  • Source: Matrescence and Performance , pp 85-107
  • Publication Date: April 2026
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835952269_7
  • Language: English
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The Grotesque
Intellect , 85 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835952269_7
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References

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References

  1. Baker, Bobby (dir) ([1988] 1996), Drawing on a Mother's Experience, Performed at Franklin Furnace, New York, 28 November, https://vimeo.com/201163847?msockid=0577eed8bd296d5e1292fd3cbc536c3c. Accessed 13 June 2025 .
  2. Bakhtin, Mikhail (1984), Rabelais and His World (trans. H. Iswolsky), Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Barrett, Michèle and Baker, Bobby (eds) (2007), Bobby Baker: Redeeming Features of Daily Life, London: Routledge.
     [Google Scholar]
  4. Black Mothers Matter UK (2024), www.blackmothersmatter.org. Accessed 2 July 2024 .
  5. Carson, Fiona (2005), ‘Uneasy spaces: The domestic uncanny in contemporary installation art’, in S. Hardy and C. Wiedmer (eds), Motherhood and Space, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 243–60, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-12103-5_14.
     [Google Scholar]
  6. Creed, Barbara ([1993] 2015), The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, London: Routledge.
     [Google Scholar]
  7. Cusk, Rachel (2012), Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation, London: Faber and Faber.
     [Google Scholar]
  8. Elkin, Lauren (2023), Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, London: Penguin Random House.
     [Google Scholar]
  9. Fluid/Domestic Flesh, Katherine Nolan, performed from artist's kitchen for Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 8 March 2021.
  10. Henning, Michelle (1999), ‘Don't touch me (I'm electric): On gender and sensation in modernity’, in J. Arthurs and J. Grimshaw (eds), Women's Bodies: Discipline and Transgression, London: Cassell, pp. 17–47.
  11. Kristeva, Julia (1982), Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (trans. L. S. Roudiez), New York: Columbia University Press.107
     [Google Scholar]
  12. McWilliam, Erica (2003), ‘The grotesque body as a feminist aesthetic?’ Critical Theory and the Human Condition: FOUNDERS AND PRAXIS. Counterpoints, 168, pp. 213–21, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42977502.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A9e51dfd654bd6666c7e829c9d0482cfc&ab_segments=&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1. Accessed 2 June 2024 .
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  13. Miles, Margaret (1997), ‘Carnal abominations: The female body as grotesque’, in J. L. Adams , W. Yates and R. P. Warren (eds), The Grotesque in Art and Literature: Theological Reflections, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing.
     [Google Scholar]
  14. Nolan, Katherine (2021), ‘Life on pause: Entanglements of the maternal and the mortal in a global pandemic’, in L. Bissell and L. Weir (eds), Performance in a Pandemic, London: Routledge, pp. 10–25.
     [Google Scholar]
  15. Nolan, Katherine (2023), ‘Through the lens of grief: Re-reading performance through pregnancy loss’, Performance Research, 28:5, pp. 88–92, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003165644-3.
     [Google Scholar]
  16. O'Reilly, Andrea (2019), ‘Matricentric feminism: A feminism for mothers’, Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, 10, pp. 13–26, https://jarm.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/jarm/article/view/40551. Accessed 28 May 2025 .
     [Google Scholar]
  17. Palko, Abigail, L. and O'Reilly, Andrea (2021), Monstrous Mothers Troubling Tropes, Ontario: Demeter Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  18. Philby, Charlotte Interview with Morven Mulgrew (2018), The Lives of Others #3, 24 April, https://charlottephilby.com/features/the-lives-of-others-3/. Accessed 12 March 2024 .
  19. Putnam, EL (2022), The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Interruption, New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
     [Google Scholar]
  20. Russo, Mary (1994), The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity, London: Routledge.
     [Google Scholar]
  21. Šimić, Lena and Underwood-Lee, Emily (2021), Maternal Performance: Feminist Relations, London: Routledge.
     [Google Scholar]
  22. Surman, Grace (dir) (2010), I Love My Baby and My Baby Loves Me, Recorded at the artist's home, https://vimeo.com/71245322?msockid=0577eed8bd296d5e1292fd3cbc536c3c. Accessed 13 June 2025 .
  23. Thurer, Shari (1994), The Myths of Motherhood: How Culture Reinvents the Good Mother, New York: Penguin.
     [Google Scholar]
  24. Young, Iris Marion (2005), Motherhood and Space: Configurations of the Maternal Through Politics, Home, and the Body (ed. S. Hardy and C. Wiedmer ), Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan.
     [Google Scholar]
  25. ZaucedoMata, Nicola (2024), Portfolio: Estudio no. 2 De Cigarras que no callan [Of cicadas that do not remain silent], Unpublished.

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