Amnéziás szabadság S.J. Watson Mielőtt elalszom című domestic noirjában
Domestic Noir and Amnesiac Freedom in S. J. Watson’s Before I Go to Sleep

Summary/Abstract: Female characters demonstrate new forms of agency in domestic noir as it is exhibited in the novel of S. J. Watson: in middle-class homes of the twenty-first century, housewives are active participants of their own lives and ably interpret their own victimization against which they fight with alternative strategies in the hope of making a change. The present paper relies on Carisa R. Showden’s hypothesis which holds that female agency can develop in situations where it is the least accounted for, such as in violent relationships. The novel as well as its film adaptation give special attention to the relationship between female agency and victimization, although the two texts apply different strategies to illustrate how the amnesiac protagonist, Christine Lucas, fights for the (re-)construction of a conscious and independent self.

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