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Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe book cover

1st Edition

Motherhood in Literature and Culture Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe

Edited By Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, Abigail Lee Six Copyright 2018
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge
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Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural representations of motherhood in various contemporary European contexts, including France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and the UK, and it considers how such representations affect the ways in which different individuals and groups negotiate... Read more

CONTENTS



Acknowledgements



Foreword, Lisa Baraitser



Introduction: Motherhood in Literature and Culture



Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, and Abigail Lee Six



Part I: Pregnancy and Birth



1: Birth Fear and the Subjugation of Women’s Strength: Towards a Broader Conceptualization of Femininity in Birth



Susannah Sweetman



2: The Temporalities of Pregnancy: On Contingency, Loss, and Waiting



Victoria Browne



3: An (Un)Familiar Story: Exploring Ultrasound Poems by Contemporary British Women Writers



Emily Blewitt



4: Birthing Tales and Collective Memory in Recent French Fiction



Valerie Worth-Stylianou



5: Natality, Materiality, Maternity: The Sublime and the Grotesque in Contemporary Sculpture



Christine Battersby



Part II: Generation and Relation



6: Erasing Mother, Seeking Father: Biotechnological Interventions, Anxieties over Motherhood, and Donor Offspring’s Narratives of Self



Gabriele Griffin



7: Mums or Dads? Lesbian Mothers in France



Gill Rye



8: The Kinning of the Transnationally Adopted Child in Contemporary Norway



Signe Howell



9: Ties that Bind in Tanja Dückers’s Novel Himmelskörper: History, Memory, and Making Sense of Motherhood in Twenty-First-Century Germany



Katherine Stone



10: Matrixial Creativity and the Wit(h)nessing of Trauma: Reconnecting Mothers and Daughters in Marosia Castaldi’s Novel Dentro le mie mani le tue: Tetralogia di Nightwater



Adalgisa Giorgo



Part III: Experience and Affect



11: Publicizing Vulnerability: Motherhood and Affect in Joanna Rajkowska’s Post-2011 Art



Justyna Wierzchowska



12: Present and Obscured: Disabled Women as Mothers in Social Policy



Harriet Clarke



13: Nuria C. Botey’s Short Story 'Viviendo con el tío Roy': Motherhood and Risk Assessment under Duress



Abigail Lee Six



14: Broken Nights, Shattered Selves: Maternal Ambivalence and the Ethics of Interruption in Sarah Moss’s Novel Night Waking



Emily Jeremiah



15: Uncertain Mothers: Maternal Ambivalence in Alina Marazzi’s Film Tutto parla di te



Claudia Karagoz



16: 'How to Say Hello to the Sea': Literary Perspectives on Medico-Legal Narratives of Maternal Filicide



Ruth Cain



Part IV: Reflections



17: To Be or Not To Be (a Mother): Telling Academic and Personal Stories of Mothers and Others



Gayle Letherby



18: Last Will and Testament: Potatoes, Love, and Poetry



Ana Luisa Amaral



List of Contributors



Index

Biography



Gill Rye is Professor Emerita at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, UK.

Victoria Browne is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Adalgisa Giorgio is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies in the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies of the University of Bath, UK.

Emily Jeremiah is Senior Lecturer in German and Gender Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Abigail Lee Six is Professor of Spanish at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

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