ISSN:
1572-9893
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Geography
Notes:
Abstract Janet Frame is a New Zealand writer who was institutionalized for nearly nine years in mental illness hospitals. Her experiences have been fictionalized in her novel, Faces in the Water, and it is these novelistic representations of the asylum that we explore in this paper. As Frame has suggested in her second volume of autobiography, An Angel at My Table, there is a personal, geographic and linguistic exclusiveness to the asylum in that the patients are stripped of their identity and forced to conform. How these themes are developed in Faces in the Water will be the focus of this paper.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00209116
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