TY  - GEN
AB  - This book questions why so many mothers leave their families in twenty-first-century Swedish literature, analyzing literary representations of maternal abandonment in relation to sociopolitical discourses. The volume draws on a queer-theoretical framework in order to highlight norm-critical dimensions, failure, and resistance in literature about motherhood. Jenny Björklund argues that novels about mothers who leave can be understood as ways to problematize and challenge Swedish-branded values like gender equality and a progressive family politics that promotes ideals of involved parenthood, the nuclear family, and pronatalism. The book also raises questions beyond the Swedish context about maternal ambivalence, family politics, and privilege and discusses how literature can work as resistance and provide alternatives to the current social order.
AU  - Björklund, Jenny,
CN  - PT9250
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-72892-2
DO  - doi
ID  - 1437514
KW  - Swedish literature
KW  - Mothers in literature.
KW  - Abandoned children in literature.
KW  - Queer theory.
KW  - Littérature suédoise
KW  - Mères dans la littérature.
KW  - Enfants abandonnés dans la littérature.
KW  - Théorie queer.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-72892-2
N2  - This book questions why so many mothers leave their families in twenty-first-century Swedish literature, analyzing literary representations of maternal abandonment in relation to sociopolitical discourses. The volume draws on a queer-theoretical framework in order to highlight norm-critical dimensions, failure, and resistance in literature about motherhood. Jenny Björklund argues that novels about mothers who leave can be understood as ways to problematize and challenge Swedish-branded values like gender equality and a progressive family politics that promotes ideals of involved parenthood, the nuclear family, and pronatalism. The book also raises questions beyond the Swedish context about maternal ambivalence, family politics, and privilege and discusses how literature can work as resistance and provide alternatives to the current social order.
SN  - 9783030728922
SN  - 3030728927
T1  - Maternal abandonment and queer resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish literature /
TI  - Maternal abandonment and queer resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish literature /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-030-72892-2
ER  -