Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)

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 approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in "in-between" positions due to migrant experiences. The contributions foreground and link together the themes central to the volume: embodied experience and maternal embodiment; notions of what is "normal" or natural (or not) about motherhood; maternal health and illness; mother-daughter relations; maternality and memory; and the (im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise questions about how motherhood and mothering are marked by absence and/or presence, as well as by profound ambivalences.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Release date:	March 2023
First published:	2023
Editors:	Helena Wahlstroem Henriksson • Anna Williams • Margaretha Fahlgren
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	185
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-117210-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
LSN:	3-03-117210-8
Barcode:	9783031172106

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