Taboo in the Next Room: Lesbian Suicide in Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour
Abstract
This article argues that Lillian Hellman’s play The Children’s Hour (1934) conflates two taboos: lesbianism and suicide. In so doing, the play creates a space of irresolution that suggests an inherent instability in the process of the taboo.
Published
28-May-2017
How to Cite
Young, Angus. 2017. “Taboo in the Next Room: Lesbian Suicide in Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour”. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 24 (May). https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.24.1881.
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