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Of Voices and Punishment

The Maternal in Jane Campion’s the Piano

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In Jane Campion’s (1993) film The Piano, the main protagonist and mother, Ada McGrath, plays her piano in a moody, repetitive, and obsessive way that evokes in the audience the character’s inner life. This impression of Ada’s interiority is further shaped through the representation of Ada’s daughter, Flora.

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  1. Sandra Chang-Kredl
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  1. McGill University, Canada

    Teresa Strong-Wilson

  2. McGill University, Canada

    Claudia Mitchell

  3. McGill University, Canada

    Allnutt Susann

  4. University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

    Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan

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Chang-Kredl, S. (2013). Of Voices and Punishment. In: Strong-Wilson, T., Mitchell, C., Susann, A., Pithouse-Morgan, K. (eds) Productive Remembering and Social Agency. Transgressions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-347-8_13

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