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@article{ART002905106},
author={Heeseung Han},
title={Bloody Vampire (and) Mother’s Body: The Representation of the Mother’s Body as an Abject in Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2022},
volume={79},
number={4},
pages={101-132},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.101}

TY - JOUR
AU - Heeseung Han
TI - Bloody Vampire (and) Mother’s Body: The Representation of the Mother’s Body as an Abject in Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2022
VL - 79
IS - 4
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 101
EP - 132
SN - 1598-3021
AB - By reading both Carmilla, a female vampire, and her victim, Laura, as a mother figure in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla,” this paper aims to reveal that mother’s reproductive body is closely connected to vampirism in the text, and to investigate the threat that the mother’s body poses to the Victorian patriarchal empire as an abject that breaks the subject’s boundaries. While Carmilla as a lesbian lover has been widely studied, Carmilla as a mother has not. Focusing on Carmilla as a vampire mother, this paper further suggests that not only Carmilla but all women’s reproductive body is related to the vampire’s ‘reproduction.’ Specifically, based on Julia Kristeva’s theory on the abject, this paper explores how the text connects the vampirism and the woman’s body which gets pregnant, delivers, and rears a child at the breast. Finally, this paper discusses that the vampire mother’s body as an abject leads to a new perception of a mother other than the Angel in the House who serves the patriarchal family-empire.
KW - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu;“Carmilla;” Vampire;Mother;Mother’s Body;Julia Kristeva;Abject
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.101
ER -

Heeseung Han. (2022). Bloody Vampire (and) Mother’s Body: The Representation of the Mother’s Body as an Abject in Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 79(4), 101-132.

Heeseung Han. 2022, "Bloody Vampire (and) Mother’s Body: The Representation of the Mother’s Body as an Abject in Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.79, no.4 pp.101-132. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.101

Heeseung Han "Bloody Vampire (and) Mother’s Body: The Representation of the Mother’s Body as an Abject in Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 79.4 pp.101-132 (2022) : 101.

Heeseung Han. Bloody Vampire (and) Mother’s Body: The Representation of the Mother’s Body as an Abject in Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”. 2022; 79(4), 101-132. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.101

Heeseung Han. "Bloody Vampire (and) Mother’s Body: The Representation of the Mother’s Body as an Abject in Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 79, no.4 (2022) : 101-132.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.101

Heeseung Han. Bloody Vampire (and) Mother’s Body: The Representation of the Mother’s Body as an Abject in Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 79(4), 101-132. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.101

Heeseung Han. Bloody Vampire (and) Mother’s Body: The Representation of the Mother’s Body as an Abject in Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2022; 79(4) 101-132. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.101

Heeseung Han. Bloody Vampire (and) Mother’s Body: The Representation of the Mother’s Body as an Abject in Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”. 2022; 79(4), 101-132. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.101

Heeseung Han. "Bloody Vampire (and) Mother’s Body: The Representation of the Mother’s Body as an Abject in Le Fanu’s “Carmilla”" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 79, no.4 (2022) : 101-132.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.101