Pérez Fernández, Irene

"This is a Business Transaction, fundamentally": Surrogate Motherhood in Meera Syal's The House of Hidden Mothers

dc.contributor.author	Pérez Fernández, Irene
dc.date.accessioned	2018-12-17T11:25:56Z
dc.date.available	2018-12-17T11:25:56Z
dc.date.issued	2018-12
dc.identifier.citation	Miscelánea: a journal of English and American Studies, 58, p. 31-48 (2018)
dc.identifier.issn	1137-6368
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10651/49590
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.miscelaneajournal.net/index.php/misc/article/view/484
dc.description.abstract	Meera Syal’s latest novel, The House of Hidden Mothers (2015), depicts the current practice of international surrogacy and raises questions about this form of reproduction which commodifies babies and constructs poor women’s bodies in India and elsewhere as sites of reproductive exploitation. Nonetheless, Syal’s novel challenges an initial reading of Indian surrogate mothers as mere passive victims of western capitalist demands and depicts a surrogate mother, Mala, who constantly subverts her position as a disempowered, ‘third world’ woman. I shall argue that the novel bridges the discursive western-constructed gap between ‘poor and disempowered’ Indian women and ‘rich and empowered’ British ones explicitly through its ending, but also implicitly by engaging with gender concerns related to the perception, (re)presentation and exploitation of women’s bodies in the United Kingdom and India alike.	spa
dc.description.sponsorship	The research for this article was conducted as part of the research project “The Politics, Aesthetics and Marketing of Literary Formulae in Popular Women’s Fiction: History, Exoticism and Romance” (FFI2016-75130-P) (AEI/FEDER, UE).
dc.format.extent	p. 31-48	spa
dc.language.iso	spa	spa
dc.relation.ispartof	Miscelánea: a journal of English and American Studies, 58	spa
dc.rights	CC Reconocimiento 4.0 Internacional
dc.rights	© 2018 Universidad de Zaragoza
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	surrogacy	spa
dc.subject	Meera Syal	spa
dc.subject	The House of Hidden Mothers	spa
dc.subject	reproductive outsourcing	spa
dc.subject	Asian-British literature	spa
dc.title	"This is a Business Transaction, fundamentally": Surrogate Motherhood in Meera Syal's The House of Hidden Mothers	spa
dc.type	journal article	spa
dc.relation.projectID	FFI2016-75130-P
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	spa

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