Finally we have Caroline Roberts with Magical Mothering: Creative responses to motherhood through a re-writing of Malekin
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The Kristaven idea of the alien in our midst. The child grows within the mother, forming its own identity while at the same time changing the role and identity of the woman. Once born, the child is unknowable, an alien
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The writer and the reader are connected through familiarity, the ambuguity in the story lends itself to a changeling narrative. The child, like the changeling, is unknown
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Malekin depicts the child as disembodied, not a changeling or spirit. This is echoed in Roberts' story. There is ambigousness of how the child leaves, whether by growing up or death, it offers the mothers experience to the fore
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