Monstrous Victims: Women, Trauma, and Gothic Violence in Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and The Nightingale

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Gildersleeve, Jessica, Sulway, Nike and Howell, Amanda. 2022. "Monstrous Victims: Women, Trauma, and Gothic Violence in Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and The Nightingale." Gildersleeve, Jessica and Cantrell, Kate (ed.) Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 213-228
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Monstrous Victims: Women, Trauma, and Gothic Violence in Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook and The Nightingale

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ERA Publisher ID1135
Book TitleScreening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand: Contemporary Antipodean Film and Television
AuthorsGildersleeve, Jessica (Author), Sulway, Nike (Author) and Howell, Amanda (Author)
EditorsGildersleeve, Jessica and Cantrell, Kate
Page Range213-228
SeriesHorror and Gothic Media Cultures
Chapter Number11
Number of Pages16
Year2022
PublisherAmsterdam University Press
Place of PublicationAmsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN9789463721141
9789048552313
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463721141_ch11
Web Address (URL)https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/3239016
Abstract

This chapter compares Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook (2014) and The Nightingale (2019) in terms of their explicit construction of violence conducted by and against women. Both films draw on the gothic trope of women suffering trauma and the more recent conversion of that suffering to the perpetuation of violent revenge. However, this chapter shows that rather than constituting a kind of bravery, or a subversion of that victimization along the lines of the figure of Carol Clover’s ‘Final Girl’, the acts of violence committed by the women in these films compound their traumatization by severing them both from others and from themselves.

KeywordsJennifer Kent; trauma; revenge; feminist film; Australian film; Australian Gothic cinema
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020470207. Cultural theory
470214. Screen and media culture
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School of Creative Arts
Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
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Sulway, Nike. 2019. "Pursuit, willfulness, and the strangeness of strangers." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 30 (1), pp. 42-51.
Exquisite Cadaver: useful writing experiment or just a good game?
Baker, Dallas J., Webb, Jen and Sulway, Nike. 2015. "Exquisite Cadaver: useful writing experiment or just a good game?" The Conversation. 22 January 2015, pp. 1-5.
Introduction: the state of play in Australian fairy tale: where to now?
Do Rozario, Rebecca-Anne, Sulway, Nike and Calderone, Belinda. 2017. "Introduction: the state of play in Australian fairy tale: where to now?" TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. 21 (Special Issue 43), pp. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.52086/001c.25871
Hyperaesthesia and futile rage: gender, anxiety and protest in Non-Combatants and Others
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2017. "Hyperaesthesia and futile rage: gender, anxiety and protest in Non-Combatants and Others." Macdonald, Kate (ed.) Rose Macaulay, gender, and modernity. United Kingdom. Routledge. pp. 25-38
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Sulway, Nike. 2018. "David Copperfield by Charles Dickens." Going Down Swinging.
Saltpan [Short story]
Sulway, Nike. 2015. "Saltpan [Short story]." Meanjin. 74 (4), pp. 146-151.
Rupetta
Sulway, N. A.. 2013. Rupetta. Leyburn, North York, United Kingdom. Tartarus Press.
'A date with Barbara': paracosms of the self in biographies of Barbara Newhall Follett
Sulway, Nike. 2017. "'A date with Barbara': paracosms of the self in biographies of Barbara Newhall Follett." Baker, Dallas John, Brien, Donna Lee and Sulway, Nike (ed.) Recovering history through fact and fiction: forgotten Lives. Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 53-67
Recovering forgotten lives through fact and fiction
Brien, Donna Lee, Baker, Dallas John and Sulway, Nike. 2017. "Recovering forgotten lives through fact and fiction." Baker, Dallas John, Brien, Donna Lee and Sulway, Nike (ed.) Recovering history through fact and fiction: forgotten lives. Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 2-10
Night drive [Poem]
Sulway, Nike. 2017. Night drive [Poem]. Melbourne. Verity La.
The beautiful husband [Short story]
Sulway, Nike. 2017. The beautiful husband [Short story]. Australia. Social Alternatives.
Don't look now
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2017. Don't look now. London, United Kingdom. Auteur.
Remembering the First World War after 9/11: Pat Barker’s life class and Toby’s Room
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2017. "Remembering the First World War after 9/11: Pat Barker’s life class and Toby’s Room." Gildersleeve, Jessica and Gehrmann, Richard (ed.) Memory and the wars on terror: Australian and British perspectives. Houndmills, United Kingdom. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 111-123
Christos Tsiolkas: the utopian vision
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2017. Christos Tsiolkas: the utopian vision. Amherst, New York. Cambria Press.
Memory and the wars on terror
Gildersleeve, Jessica and Gehrmann, Richard. 2017. "Memory and the wars on terror." Gildersleeve, Jessica and Gehrmann, Richard (ed.) Memory and the wars on terror: Australian and British perspectives. Houndmills, United Kingdom. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1-19
Queensland modernisms
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2016. "Queensland modernisms." Queensland Review. 23 (2), pp. 113-115. https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2016.23
‘He is telling us fairy tales’: parental anxiety and wartime childhood in Life is Beautiful, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Fairy Tales from Auschwitz
Gildersleeve, Jessica, Batorowicz, Beata, Gildersleeve J. and Batorowicz B.. 2018. "‘He is telling us fairy tales’: parental anxiety and wartime childhood in Life is Beautiful, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Fairy Tales from Auschwitz." Holocaust Studies. 24 (1), pp. 26-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2017.1340074
Dying in the first person
Sulway, Nike. 2016. Dying in the first person. Melbourne, Australia. Transit Lounge Publishing.
Are you there? Can you forgive me?: The World to Come by Patrick West and Om Prakash Dwivedi (eds)
Sulway, Nike. 2015. "Are you there? Can you forgive me?: The World to Come by Patrick West and Om Prakash Dwivedi (eds)." TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. 19 (1).
An experiment in collaborative writing: day ten
Johnson, Marguerite, Nelson, Camilla, Rodley, Chris, Corbett, Claire, Baker, Dallas, Hancox, Donna, Messer, Jane, Meyrick, Julian, Smith, Michelle and Sulway, Nike. 2015. "An experiment in collaborative writing: day ten." The Conversation. 6 January 2015, pp. 1-24.
Anxious affinities: gender and dereliction in Sarah Waters's neo-forties novels
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2016. "Anxious affinities: gender and dereliction in Sarah Waters's neo-forties novels." Jones, Adele and O'Callaghan, Clare (ed.) Sarah Waters and contemporary feminisms. Basingstoke, United Kingdom. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 81-96
Traumatic cosmopolitanism: Eleanor Dark and the world at war
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2016. "Traumatic cosmopolitanism: Eleanor Dark and the world at war." Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation. 41 (1/2), pp. 7-17.
Uchronic, or queer in no time: wilful subjects in historical fiction
Sulway, Nike. 2015. "Uchronic, or queer in no time: wilful subjects in historical fiction." 20th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs 2015: Writing the Ghost Train: Rewriting, Remaking, Rediscovering. Melbourne, Australia 28 Nov - 01 Dec 2015 Australia.
For the sake of the children: class, anxiety and childhood in Barbara Noble's Doreen
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2014. "For the sake of the children: class, anxiety and childhood in Barbara Noble's Doreen." Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation. 40 (1), pp. 134-141.
Behind the green door: a story about suffering and hybrid identity in the 1950s and 1960s
Sulway, Nike. 2015. "Behind the green door: a story about suffering and hybrid identity in the 1950s and 1960s." TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. 19 (Special Issue 31), pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.52086/001c.27165
Nowadays: trauma and modernity in Agatha Christie's late Poirot novels
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2016. "Nowadays: trauma and modernity in Agatha Christie's late Poirot novels." Clues: a journal of detection. 34 (1), pp. 96-104.
Dear Tip [Letter]
Sulway, Nike. 2015. "Dear Tip [Letter]." Pierce, Alexandra and Krasnostein, Alisa (ed.) Letters to Tiptree. Australia. Twelfth Planet Press. pp. 182-186
Paper boats [Short story]
Sulway, Nike. 2015. "Paper boats [Short story]." TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. Special Issue 30, pp. 1-11.
Where is she? Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2015. "Where is she? Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen." Ailwood, Sarah and Harvey, Melinda (ed.) Katherine Mansfield and literary influence. Edinburgh. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 35-47
The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club [Short story]
Sulway, Nike. 2015. "The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club [Short story]." Lightspeed Magazine.
'Ropes of stories': Jean Rhys, Vivienne Cleven, and Melissa Lucashenko
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2015. "'Ropes of stories': Jean Rhys, Vivienne Cleven, and Melissa Lucashenko." Queensland Review. 22 (1), pp. 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2015.7
The nature of things [Short story]
Sulway, Nike. 2015. "The nature of things [Short story]." Review of Australian Fiction. 13 (4).
Candlewick [Short story]
Sulway, Nike. 2015. "Candlewick [Short story]." Fourteen Hills: The San Francisco State University Review. 21 (3).
Death, dildoes and daffodils: a queer winter's tale
Sulway, Nike. 2014. "Death, dildoes and daffodils: a queer winter's tale." Johnson, Laurie and Chalk, Darryl (ed.) 12th Biennial International Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA 2014): Shakespearean Perceptions. Toowoomba, Australia 02 - 04 Oct 2014
Happily ever after, almost
Sulway, Nike. 2014. "Happily ever after, almost." Writing Queensland.
The wine-dark sea
Bourke, N. A.. 2011. The wine-dark sea. Toowoomba, Queensland.
Elizabeth Bowen and the writing of trauma: the ethics of survival
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2014. Elizabeth Bowen and the writing of trauma: the ethics of survival. Amsterdam and New York. Rodopi.
'We're all strangers': post-war anxiety in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2014. "'We're all strangers': post-war anxiety in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap." Clues: a journal of detection. 32 (2), pp. 115-123. https://doi.org/10.3172/CLU.32.2.115
The lost man [Short story]
Sulway, Nike. 2013. "The lost man [Short story]." Southerly: a review of Australian literature. 73 (3), pp. 153-163.
Behind the green door: romantic suffering and Australian lesbian identity in the mid-twentieth century
Sulway, Nike. 2012. "Behind the green door: romantic suffering and Australian lesbian identity in the mid-twentieth century." Willett, Graham (ed.) 11th Australian Homosexual Histories Conference (ALGA 2012). Brisbane, Australia 08 - 09 Jun 2012
The salted heart [Short story]
Sulway, N. A.. 2011. "The salted heart [Short story]." Thompson, Stephen (ed.) Mythic resonance. Brisbane, Australia. Esstee Media. pp. 11-30
Their golden daughters
Sulway, N. A.. 2011. "Their golden daughters." Kenny, John (ed.) Box of delights. Dublin, Ireland. Aeon Press. pp. 32-38
The fox's child [Short story]
Sulway, Nike. 2012. "The fox's child [Short story]." Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.
My Queensland: this is not for you
Bourke, Nike. 2008. "My Queensland: this is not for you." Griffith Review.
Muddy death: fate, femininity and mourning in Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2010. "Muddy death: fate, femininity and mourning in Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight." Wisker, Gina and Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline (ed.) Rites of passage in postcolonial women's writing. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Rodopi. pp. 227-244
My Queensland
Shapcott, Thomas, Winch, Tara June, Sheahan-Bright, Robyn, Bourke, Nike and Elliott, Will. 2008. "My Queensland." Griffith Review.
Arboretum
Bourke, N. A.. 2009. "Arboretum." The Lifted Brow.
Gibraltar
Bourke, N. A.. 2010. "Gibraltar." The Lifted Brow.
Her lover's golden hair [Short story]
Sulway, Nike. 2011. "Her lover's golden hair [Short story]." Fantasy Magazine. 57.
The spectre and the stage: reading and ethics at the intersection of psychoanalysis, the neo-Victorian, and the gothic
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2013. "The spectre and the stage: reading and ethics at the intersection of psychoanalysis, the neo-Victorian, and the gothic." Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. 18 (3), pp. 99-108.
Gender, memory and illness in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2010. "Gender, memory and illness in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea." McClinton-Temple, Jennifer (ed.) Encyclopedia of themes in literature, volume 3. New York, NY. United States. Facts on File. pp. 901-904
Her story: Liza's England (The Century's Daughter)
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2011. "Her story: Liza's England (The Century's Daughter)." Wheeler, Pat (ed.) Re-reading Pat Barker. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 25-41
Regarding violence in Pat Barker's Double Vision
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2009. "Regarding violence in Pat Barker's Double Vision." Peer English. 4, pp. 32-46.
Monstrous child: Rosamond Lehmann's war writing
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2011. "Monstrous child: Rosamond Lehmann's war writing." Philament. 17 (17), pp. 1-11.
Jean Rhys's Tropographies: unmappable identity and the tropical landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and selected short fiction
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2011. "Jean Rhys's Tropographies: unmappable identity and the tropical landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and selected short fiction." eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics. 10, pp. 32-38.
Trauma, memory and landscape in Queensland: women writing 'A New Alphabet of Moss and Water'
Gildersleeve, Jessica. 2012. "Trauma, memory and landscape in Queensland: women writing 'A New Alphabet of Moss and Water'." Queensland Review. 19 (2), pp. 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2012.23