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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood seeks to reevaluate the concept of unconditional maternal love and the global emancipation of motherhood as recorded from 17th century onward and as analyzed in various genres: cinema, poetry, novel, drama, and mystery fiction series. By using unprecedented comparative critical approaches such as phenomenological, medical, feminist, and re-enchantment theories, and by analyzing works from literature, cinema, and visual arts, this collection attempts to reestablish and redefine a canonical concept with the intention to revitalize an otherwise taken-for-gran. |
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A mother's loss of her daughter's face: ethical issues of facial disfigurement in Natalie Kusz's memoir Road song / Gudrun Grabher -- From child to mother: the disjoint identity of Charles Robert Maturin's Immalee / Margarita Georgieva -- Solving the "crumbling" mother in Nancy Drew / Michael Cornelius -- Feminized and maternal bodies: thresholds to empowered roles in Clara Reeve's The old English baron / Sharon L. Decker -- The price we pay: motherhood, marriage, and the struggle to class jump in Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina / Tarah Sweeting-Trotter -- Childless motherhood: the geopolitics of maternal bliss in Fatih Akin's The edge of heaven / Oana M. Chivoiu -- Dismatria: the quest for a motherland in Igiaba Scego's writings / Tatjana Babic Williams -- 'I wanted to hear her called Mom': the grieving mother and lost pregnant daughter in Sharon Rocha's For Laci / Jennifer Musial -- Unwanted mother, unwanted motherhood: competing maternities in Selby's Requiem for a dream / Zachary Snider -- "She who dwells alone ...:" mad mothers, old spinsters, and hysterical women in William Wordsworth's poetry of 1798 / Irina Strout -- Writing, mothering, and traumatic subjectivity in Sapphire's Push / Sherry Ziesenheim and Matthew J. Darling -- Looking into the mirror, inscribing the blank slate: eighteenth-century women write about mothering / Elizabeth Johnston -- Wise mother? Insane mother?: Sara Chapman Bull and the disarticulated subjectivities of turn-of-the-century motherhood / Jacqueline Brady -- Maternal interruption: reconceiving political spaces and social agency in Buchi Emecheta's Joys of motherhood / Mary L. Cappelli -- Mother-less: Joan Didion's Blue nights and David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit hole / Catalina Florina Florescu. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Mothers in literature.
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Mothers in literature. |
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Mothers in motion pictures.
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Mothers in motion pictures. |
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Motherhood.
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Motherhood. |
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Feminist theory.
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Feminist theory. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Motherhood. |
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Feminist theory. |
| Added Author |
Florescu, Catalina Florina.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Disjointed perspectives on motherhood 9780739183175 (DLC) 2013029509 (OCoLC)854609295 |
| ISBN |
9780739183182 (electronic book) |
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0739183184 (electronic book) |
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1306094194 (e-book) |
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9781306094191 (e-book) |
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9780739183175 |
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0739183176 |
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