1st Edition
Motherhood and Creativity in Contemporary Self-Life Writing Writers and Mothers
By Alice Braun
Copyright 2025
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book aims to study the representation of motherhood in self-life writing by English-speaking authors. It highlights the particular issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine their vocation as artists with their duties towards their children. For those women who claim their right to be both mothers and writers, several cultural myths need to be taken down, chief among which... Read more
Acknowledgments
Introduction – A Sound-Proof Room of One’s Own
Chapter 1 – The Impossible Subject
Chapter 2 – To Have and Have Not
Chapter 3 – On Pregnancy and Childbirth
Chapter 4 – Mother Writing
Chapter 5 – Bad Mothers
Conclusion – Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater
Index
Biography
Alice Braun is a senior lecturer at the Université de Paris Nanterre in France. She has been researching self-life writing by women and is the author of several articles on Janet Frame, Rachel Cusk, Sylvia Plath, and Doris Lessing. Lately, she has been working on the representation of motherhood in literary texts, and particularly childbirth.
