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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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023. |
| Series: | Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.