Maternal abandonment and queer resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish literature / Jenny Björklund.

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Maternal abandonment and queer resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish literature / Jenny Björklund.

9783030728922 (electronic bk.)
3030728927 (electronic bk.)
9783030728915 (print)
3030728919

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

English

1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-030-72892-2 doi

PT9250

839.70935220905

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.

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