Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing

This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wahlström Henriksson, Helena. editor (editor), Williams, Anna. editor, Fahlgren, Margaretha. editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2023.
Edición:1st ed. 2023.
Colección:Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life,
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009741102806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Ambivalent Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering: From Normal and Natural to Not-at-all
  • 2. One Hand Clapping: The Loneliness of Motherhood in Lucia Berlin’s “Tiger Bites”
  • 3. “their mothers, and their fathers, and everyone in between”: Queering Motherhood in Trans Parent Memoirs by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Trystan Reese
  • 4. Struggling to Become a Mother: Literary Representations of Involuntary Childlessness
  • 5. Orality/Aurality and Voice of the Voiceless Mother in Abla Farhoud’s Happiness Has a Slippery Tail
  • 6. From Survivor to Im/migrant Motherhood and Beyond: Margit Silberstein’s Postmemorial Autobiography, Förintelsens Barn
  • 7. The (M)other’s Voice: Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Swiss Writing by Women
  • 8. Contested Motherhood in Autobiographical Writing: Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti
  • 9. A Plea for Motherhood: Mothering and Writing in Contemporary Norwegian Literature.