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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 motherhood as both institution and lived
experience. It has a particular focus on literature, but it also
includes essays that examine representations of motherhood in
philosophy, art, social policy, and film. The book's driving
contention is that, through intersecting with other fields and
disciplines, literature and the study of literature have an
important role to play in nuancing dialogues around motherhood, by
offering challenging insights and imaginative responses to complex
problems and experiences. This is demonstrated throughout the
volume, which covers a range of topics including: discursive and
visual depictions of pregnancy and birth; the impact of new
reproductive technologies on changing family configurations; the
relationship between mothering and citizenship; the shaping of
policy imperatives regarding mothering and disability; and the
difficult realities of miscarriage, child death, violence, and
infanticide. The collection expands and complicates hegemonic
notions of motherhood, as the authors map and analyse shifting
conceptions of maternal subjectivity and embodiment, explore some
of the constraining and/or enabling contexts in which mothering
takes place, and ask searching questions about what it means to be
a 'mother' in Europe today. It will be of interest not only to
those working in gender, women's and feminist studies, but also to
scholars in literary and cultural studies, and those researching in
sociology, criminology, politics, psychology, medical ethics,
midwifery, and related fields.
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 motherhood as both institution and lived
experience. It has a particular focus on literature, but it also
includes essays that examine representations of motherhood in
philosophy, art, social policy, and film. The book's driving
contention is that, through intersecting with other fields and
disciplines, literature and the study of literature have an
important role to play in nuancing dialogues around motherhood, by
offering challenging insights and imaginative responses to complex
problems and experiences. This is demonstrated throughout the
volume, which covers a range of topics including: discursive and
visual depictions of pregnancy and birth; the impact of new
reproductive technologies on changing family configurations; the
relationship between mothering and citizenship; the shaping of
policy imperatives regarding mothering and disability; and the
difficult realities of miscarriage, child death, violence, and
infanticide. The collection expands and complicates hegemonic
notions of motherhood, as the authors map and analyse shifting
conceptions of maternal subjectivity and embodiment, explore some
of the constraining and/or enabling contexts in which mothering
takes place, and ask searching questions about what it means to be
a 'mother' in Europe today. It will be of interest not only to
those working in gender, women's and feminist studies, but also to
scholars in literary and cultural studies, and those researching in
sociology, criminology, politics, psychology, medical ethics,
midwifery, and related fields.
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The Brothers (Paperback)
Asko Sahlberg; Edited by Emily Jeremiah; Translated by Fleur Jeremiah
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Finland, 1809. Henrik and Erik are brothers who fought on opposite
sides in the war between Sweden and Russia. With peace declared,
they both return to their snowed-in farm. But who is the master?
Sexual tensions, old grudges, family secrets: all come to a head in
this dark and gripping saga. ------- Why Peirene chose to publish
this book: 'This is a historical novel in miniature form. It deals
in dark passions and delivers as many twists as a 500-page epic.
And if that were not enough, each character speaks in a distinct
voice and expresses a unique take on reality. I'm thrilled to be
publishing a book that is as Finnish as a forest in winter - but
that resembles a work from the American South: William Faulkner's
As I Lay Dying.' Meike Ziervogel, Publisher
Explores the process of "becoming woman" through an analysis of the
depiction of girls and young women in contemporary Anglo-American
and German literary texts. What does it mean to "become woman" in
the context of neoliberalism and postfeminism? What is the role of
will in this process? Willful Girls explores these questions
through an analysis of the depiction of girls and youngwomen in
contemporary Anglo-American and German literary texts. It
identifies four sets of concerns that are vital for an
understanding of gendered subject formation in the contemporary
context: agency and volition; body and beauty; sisterhood and
identification; and sex and desire. The book examines numerous
nonfiction feminist texts as well as novels by Helene Hegemann,
Caitlin Moran, Charlotte Roche, Emma Jane Unsworth, Kate Zambreno,
and Juli Zeh, among others. These texts illustrate the complex
processes by which female subjects become women today. Failure,
refusal, disgust, and anger are striking features of these
becomings. Drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed (Willful Subjects) and
thinkers including Simone de Beauvoir, Rosi Braidotti, and
Elizabeth Grosz, the book demonstrates the significance of
willfulness for understandings and assertions of female agency. In
addition, it proposesa view of literary works themselves as
instances of willfulness. The book will be of interest to scholars
working in comparative literature, English, German studies, and
feminist, gender, and queer studies. Emily Jeremiah is Senior
Lecturer in German and Gender Studies at Royal Holloway, University
of London.
One quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction...
A young girl loses her mother when a block of ice falls from the sky. A woman wins the jackpot twice. A man is struck by lightning four times. Coincidence? Or something more?
Things That Fall from the Sky is the tale of three lives that are changed forever by random events. But it is also a meditation on the endurance of love, the passage of time and the pain of loss. Selja Ahava, one of Finland's best-loved novelists, weaves these stories together in an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind fable about the twists and turns that can define a lifetime.
Building on a long tradition in German-language literature and
culture, this volume focuses on contemporary engagements with
ethical concerns in literary texts, essays, and films. There has
been an "ethical turn" in the literature, culture, and theory of
recent years. Questions of morality are urgent at a time of
increasing global insecurities. Yet it is becoming ever more
difficult to make ethical judgments in multicultural, relativist
societies. The European economic meltdown has raised further
ethical difficulties, widening the gap between rich and poor. Such
divisions and difficulties heighten the widespread fear of "the
other"in its various manifestations. And in the German context
especially, the past and its representation offer ongoing moral
challenges. These ethical concerns have found their way into recent
German-language literature andculture in texts that deal with
history and memory (Timm, Petzold, Schoch, Strubel); materiality
(Krauss, Overath); gender (Berg, Schneider); age and generation
(Moster, Pehnt, Schalansky); religion, especially Islam (Senocak,
Kermani, Ruete); and nomadism (Tawada). The relationship between
self and other; the connection between particular and general; the
personal and political consequences of individuals' actions; and
the potential, and danger, of representation itself are issues that
are vital to the shaping of our future ethical landscapes, as this
volume demonstrates. Contributors: Monika Albrecht, Angelika Baier,
David N. Coury, Anna Ertel & Tilmann Koeppe, Emily Jeremiah,
Alasdair King, Frauke Matthes, Aine McMurtry, Gillian Pye, Kate
Roy. Emily Jeremiah is Senior Lecturer in German at Royal Holloway,
University of London. Frauke Matthes is Lecturer in German at the
University ofEdinburgh.
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Six Finnish Poets (Paperback)
Vesa Haapala, Janne Nummel, Matilda Sodergran; Edited by Teemu Mannien; Translated by Lola Rogers, …
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Six Finnish Poets, the eleventh volume in this series, features six
writers whose work is symbolic of the connection between the life
of poetry in Finland and the life of the poets who write it. In
Finland, poetry is a part of everyday life, a way of living,
founded upon a do-it-yourself attitude that is independent of the
approval of critics, publishers, or the popular masses. The poets
selected here exhibit the vast range of Finnish poetry, from
experimental prose to image-rich surrealism, and from sparse, stark
minimalism to ironically melancholy pop-culture references.
Presents fifteen new German-language novelists and a close reading
of an exemplary work of each for academics and the general reader
alike. After the international success in the 1990s of authors such
as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an
impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a
significant impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and
Sasa Stanisic, have achieved international recognition; some, like
Julia Franck, have won major prizes; others, like Clemens Meyer,
Alina Bronsky, and Ilja Trojanow, are truly "emerging authors" who
have begun toattract attention. Between them they represent a range
of literatures in German, from women's writing to minority writing
(from Turkish immigrants and Eastern Europe), to "pop literature"
and perspectives on the former GDR and onGermany's Nazi past. This
volume devotes individual essays to fifteen such writers, examining
in detail a major work of each. Translated excerpts from works by
Vladimir Vertlib and Clemens Meyer round out the book, which willbe
of interest not only to academics and students of English and
Comparative Literature in the UK, the US, and beyond, but also to
the general reader, for whom titles of texts and quotations are
translated. Contributors: Lyn Marven, Stuart Taberner, Anke S.
Biendarra, Stephen Brockmann, Rebecca Braun, Frauke Matthes, Brigid
Haines, Julian Preece, Emily Jeremiah, Valerie Heffernan, Barbara
Mennel, Heike Bartel, Kate Roy, Andrew Plowman, Sonja E.Klocke,
Jamie Lee Searle, Katy Derbyshire. Lyn Marven is a Lecturer in
German at the University of Liverpool. Stuart Taberner is Professor
of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the
University of Leeds.
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A Window Left Open (Paperback)
Pentti Saarikoski; Translated by Emily Jeremiah, Fleur Jeremiah
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R381
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Pentti Saarikoski was a prolific translator and journalist, and a
revered modernist poet central to the Finnish literary scene of the
1960s and 1970s. The inventiveness, warmth and humour of
Saarikoski's voice have made him something of a national treasure
in Finland. His writing is at once playful and political, drawing
on everyday life and current affairs, as well as Greek antiquity.
This collection of poems chosen and translated by Emily Jeremiah
and Fleur Jeremiah charts Saarikoski's artistic development over
the decades from his early Greek period to his politically charged
participative poetry, and ultimately his last known poem. This
dual-language edition places the original Finnish poems
side-by-side with their English translation, inviting readers to
explore the elegant craftsmanship of Saarikoski's use of language.
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