MATILDA AND THE WITCHES - The Heteronormative Illustrated in Dahl
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This essay explores the view on gender in Roald Dahl’s Matilda and The Witches.
From a queer perspective, the essay examines the message residing in the intermedial space of
the text-image relationship. Analysing several character’s gender performances from both
books, the conclusion found that Dahl, in these books, favours assigning queer descriptors to
bad characters, and heteronormative descriptors to good characters. Furthermore, the analysis
points out several examples of the illustrations and text contradicting as well as amplifying each
other.
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English, Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake, Matilda, The Witches, gender, intermediality, children’s literature, illustrations