![]() ![]() ![]() In the core narrative present in both texts, the arc of lesbian romance is portrayed in and against parent-child bonds, while the employment of a mother-daughter erotic reinscribes racial and gender norms. My reading illuminates how the textual strategies of metaphorical substitution and narrative replacement used to imagine postwar lesbian romance consequently render lesbian motherhood and queer desire as seemingly incommensurable. This article offers a comparative analysis of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, and Todd Haynes’s 2015 film adaptation, Carol, to bear witness to the often-overlooked history of pre-Stonewall queer parenthood and to imagine a more radical future of queer kinship. ![]()
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