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A novel about silence, misfits, sexuality, insanity, and death, Michael Cunningham’s The Hours covers complex, versatile spaces, transposing Virginia Woolf’s Richmond to Los Angeles in the 1950s, to a site of domesticity, and Clarissa Dalloway’s 1920s London to 1990s New York, in the postfeminist age of LGBTQ+ empowerment. Highlighting the time-space paradigm, the novel maps universes inhabited by Others, decoded here through Edward Soja’s and Michel Foucault’s notions of thirdspace and heterotopia. The women constructed as Others, as well as their fiction-reality border crossings, are read through lenses provided by Betty Friedan and Kate Millet. The social and cultural, literary and metaliterary, textual and intertextual net cast by the American novelist brings to the surface issues related to discursive strategies and the politics of representation, while challenging reader expectation and response.

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Re-mapping Gendered Spaces in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours

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    2025年

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  • Michaela Praisler,
  • Oana-Celia Gheorghiu

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A novel about silence, misfits, sexuality, insanity, and death, Michael Cunningham’s The Hours covers complex, versatile spaces, transposing Virginia Woolf’s Richmond to Los Angeles in the 1950s, to a site of domesticity, and Clarissa Dalloway’s 1920s London to 1990s New York, in the postfeminist age of LGBTQ+ empowerment. Highlighting the time-space paradigm, the novel maps universes inhabited by Others, decoded here through Edward Soja’s and Michel Foucault’s notions of thirdspace and heterotopia. The women constructed as Others, as well as their fiction-reality border crossings, are read through lenses provided by Betty Friedan and Kate Millet. The social and cultural, literary and metaliterary, textual and intertextual net cast by the American novelist brings to the surface issues related to discursive strategies and the politics of representation, while challenging reader expectation and response.