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Tag: Is Mother Dead

Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth – a rich, compelling and unsettling read

7th November 20227th November 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Vigdis Hjorth’s novel, Is Mother Dead, translated by Charlotte Barslund, interrogates the cultural expectations placed on ‘woman’ and ‘mother’, and offers a stark and powerful addition to the growing body of ‘motherhood’ texts, writes Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books in translation, Charlotte Barslund, french feminism, Is Mother Dead, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Motherhood, translated fiction, Verso, Verso Books, Verso Fiction, Vigdis Hjorth, Women in Translation
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