Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Wahlström Henriksson, Helena (Editor), Williams, Anna (Editor), Fahlgren, Margaretha (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life,
Subjects:	Sociology. Social groups. Sex. Emigration and immigration. Fertility, Human. Literature. Culture-Study and teaching. Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. Gender Studies. Human Migration. Fertility. Cultural Studies. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Ambivalent Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering: From Normal and Natural to Not-at-all
2. One Hand Clapping: The Loneliness of Motherhood in Lucia Berlin's "Tiger Bites"
3. "their mothers, and their fathers, and everyone in between": Queering Motherhood in Trans Parent Memoirs by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Trystan Reese
4. Struggling to Become a Mother: Literary Representations of Involuntary Childlessness
5. Orality/Aurality and Voice of the Voiceless Mother in Abla Farhoud's Happiness Has a Slippery Tail
6. From Survivor to Im/migrant Motherhood and Beyond: Margit Silberstein's Postmemorial Autobiography, Förintelsens Barn
7. The (M)other's Voice: Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Swiss Writing by Women
8. Contested Motherhood in Autobiographical Writing: Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti
9. A Plea for Motherhood: Mothering and Writing in Contemporary Norwegian Literature.