THE PLAY OF TEXTS WITHIN A TEXT IN EMMA DONOGHUE’S HOOD

Abstract

The paper entitled “The Play of Texts within a Texts in Emma Donoghue’s Hood” aims to explore Donoghue’s expertise of textual incorporation in her novel Hood using Gerard Genette’s concept of transtextuality. It subtly projects the problems in lesbian relationships through a universally appealing theme of grief in a ‘transtextual framework’. This paper tends to reinstate the postmodern view that there is nothing called ‘absolute meaning’ in the context of textual analysis since the meanings are liable to transformation depending on the context, signifying system and intellectual experience of the readers.