Citation

Franco J. Eur. J. Cult. Stud. 2013; 16(3): 267-284.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1367549413476012

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article examines the narrative and discursive strategies that have been mobilised over the past five years in the British community soap EastEnders to construct high-profile child (sex) abuse narratives. It focuses primarily on the long-running retrospective paternal rape and incest storyline that is reconfigured as a maternal melodrama to manage tensions over power, sexuality and the family. The mother-daughter dynamic as a privileged site of trauma and potential resistance to patriarchal control is analysed in both the EastEnders source text and Ronnie and Danielle fan fiction produced by and for female adolescents.

Language: en