Solid All the Way Through:: Margaret Mahy's Ordinary Witches

Alison Waller

doi:10.1023/B:CLID.0000018902.40058.f3

Solid All the Way Through: Margaret Mahy's Ordinary Witches

Alison Waller

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Abstract

In The Haunting, The Changeover, and The Tricksters, Margaret Mahy fuses supernatural iconography of witchcraft and magic with images of ordinary and domestic adolescence. This article argues that Mahy's "fantastic realism" illuminates aspects of female t

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	77-86
Journal	Children's Literature in Education
Volume	35
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/B:CLID.0000018902.40058.f3
Publication status	Published - 2004

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