Having just finished reading Donald Sturrock’s Roald Dahl: Storyteller, I have a few thoughts and a lot of gripes…
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The New Yorker’s Promotion of Roald Dahl’s Monstrous ‘The Landlady’
Over the weekend, The New Yorker’s ‘Classics’ newsletter headlined with Road Dahl’s 1959 short story, The Landlady…
Violent motivations in Roald Dahl’s “The Great Switcheroo” and “The Last Act”
Trigger warning: explicit mention of r*pe and sexual violence
Voicelessness and Sexual Power Dynamics in Roald Dahl’s “The Visitor”
While this particular story certainly isn’t the most egregious case of misogyny and gender-based sexual violence against women, it is fruitful for establishing narrative devices that Dahl employs to present such themes to his audience
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