Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood

Herausgeber: Florescu, Catalina Florina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood presents the accounts of mothers who have suffered a major physical and/or psychically traumatic accident, and, as a consequence, their minds and bodies have been drastically changed. They live under the pressure of having discovered the alter ego of their traumatized personality, and now, distressed, cannot embrace their unconditional maternal love. Instead, they enter into a phase where they face the challenge of revealing who they are as persons before accepting or motivating themselves as mothers. The mothers presented in this volume also seem to have another thing in common: their transnational, fluid, female identity as they enter into an imaginary dialog that transcends geographical and temporal perspectives on womanhood and motherhood. This collection introduces and analyzes recurrent words that define a woman's body and mind today: fear, competition, motherhood and career rights, selfishness, ambition, destruction, distance, and identity. By using unprecedented comparative critical approaches such as phenomenological, medical, feminist, and re-enchantinent 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-granted image and role.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780739183175
• ISBN-10: 0739183176
• Artikelnr.: 39358619

Autorenporträt

Edited by Catalina Florina Florescu

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 A Mother's Loss of Her Daughter's
Face: Ethical Issues of Facial Disfigurement in Natalie Kusz's Memoir Road
Song Gudrun Grabher 2 From Child to Mother: The Disjoint Identity of
Charles Robert Maturin's Immalee Margarita Georgieva 3 Solving the
"Crumbling" Mother in Nancy Drew Michael Cornelius 4 Feminized and Maternal
Bodies: Thresholds to Empowered Roles in Clara Reeve's The Old English
Baron Sharon L. Decker 5 The Price We Pay: Motherhood, Marriage and the
Struggle to Class Jump in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina Tarah
Sweeting-Trotter 6 Childless Motherhood: the Geopolitics of Maternal Bliss
in Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven Oana M. Chivoiu 7 Dismatria: The Quest
for a Mother-Land in Igiaba Scego's Writings Tatjana Babic-Wiilliams 8 'I
wanted to hear her called Mom': The Grieving Mother and Lost Pregnant
Daughter in Sharon Rocha's For Laci Jennifer Musial 9 Unwanted Mother,
Unwanted Motherhood: Competing Maternities in Selby's Requiem for a Dream
Zachary Snider 10 "She Who Dwells Alone ...:" Mad Mothers, Old Spinsters
and Hysterical Women in William Wordsworth's Poetry of 1798 Irina Strout 11
Writing, Mothering, and Traumatic Subjectivity in Sapphire's Push Sherry
Ziesenheim & Matthew J. Darling 12 Looking into the Mirror, Inscribing the
Blank Slate: 18th Century Women Write about Mothering Elizabeth Johnston 13
Wise Mother? Insane Mother? Sara Chapman Bull and the Disarticulated
Subjectivities of Turn-of-the Century Motherhood Jacqueline Brady 14
Maternal Interruption: Reconceiving Political Spaces and Social Agency in
Buchi Emecheta's Joys of Motherhood Mary L. Cappelli 15 Mother-less: Joan
Didion's Blue Nights and David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole Catalina
Florina Florescu Afterword Index About the Authors