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This paper analyzes British child welfare measures in The Child in Time by Ian McEwan through the central event of the disappearance of five-year-old Kate, the daughter of the protagonist, Stephen Lewis. From the outset, the narrative unfolds Kate’s missing and explores the aftermath of this traumatic event at both the private and public levels. Stephen, as a victim of this irreversible loss and as a writer of children’s literature, takes part in a government committee responsible for publishing the Authorized Child-Care Guidebook in the socio-political context of post-Margaret Thatcherism. His dual identity enables a critique of absurdity of the child welfare measures and the Guidebook shaped by New Right and neoliberal economic world-views, which push marginalized members of society to the periphery. In the body of the paper, the focus will be placed on the concept of “bare life” among marginalized children, particularly girls, considering the gender of the missing child, Kate. Throughout the argument, theoretical frameworks such as biopolitics, Agamben’s concept of homo sacer, ideological state apparatuses such as the family, and post-structuralist discourse theory will be employed to reveal the underlying realities behind the Guidebook.

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Ⅰ. 서론
Ⅱ. 케이트의 부재, 시대의 초상
Ⅲ. 지침서 이면에 드리운 남성/가부장 중심주의
Ⅳ. 결론
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• 임은영 [ Eun-young Im | 전북대학교 강사 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820