Infant Voices: Embryonic and Neonatal Personhood in Two Recent French Catholic Novels
There are almost no literary or artistic representations that take the unborn or neonatal infants as their subject. Two exceptions to this are Claire Daudin's Le Sourire and Antoine Beauquier's Pavillon 7: la révolte des embryons. What these novels share is the ambition to frame such subje...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2017]
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Literature and theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-63 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture NBE Anthropology NCB Personal ethics |
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| Summary: | There are almost no literary or artistic representations that take the unborn or neonatal infants as their subject. Two exceptions to this are Claire Daudin's Le Sourire and Antoine Beauquier's Pavillon 7: la révolte des embryons. What these novels share is the ambition to frame such subjects as full and complete persons. Thus in their distinct ways both novels engage with the familial, social and biological problems that arise when personhood is attributed to embryos or neo-natal infants. Their creation of an embryonic or infant 'voice' associates the dignity of such subjects with divine origins. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frv031 |