Narratives of motherhood and mothering in fiction and life writing / Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Anna Williams, Margaretha Fahlgren, editors.
Wahlström Henriksson, Helena, editor.; Williams, Anna, 1957- editor.; Fahlgren, Margaretha, editor.
2023
PN56.5.M67
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Title
Narratives of motherhood and mothering in fiction and life writing / Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Anna Williams, Margaretha Fahlgren, editors.
ISBN
9783031172113 (electronic bk.)
3031172116 (electronic bk.)
9783031172106
3031172108
9783031172137
3031172132
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (200 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-17211-3 doi
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PN56.5.M67
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.9335252
Summary
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.
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Includes index.
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Wahlström Henriksson, Helena, editor.
Williams, Anna, 1957- editor.
Fahlgren, Margaretha, editor.
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Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
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