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OverviewThis book aims to study the representation of motherhood in self-life writing by English-speaking authors. It highlights the particular issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine their vocation as artists with their duties towards their children. For those women who claim their right to be both mothers and writers, several cultural myths need to be taken down, chief among which is the representations that we have of what being an artist should be like, as well as the role a mother should have towards her children. This book looks at self-life writing by women from English-speaking countries to reveal the common themes and tropes which recur in texts written on the subject of motherhood, by looking at them from both a literary and a cultural perspective. It also aims to demonstrate that a new generation of women writers is taking up the subject and forging a new literary tradition. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alice BraunPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.510kg ISBN: 9781032609829ISBN 10: 1032609826 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 21 August 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available ![]() This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction – A Sound-Proof Room of One’s Own Chapter 1 – The Impossible Subject Chapter 2 – To Have and Have Not Chapter 3 – On Pregnancy and Childbirth Chapter 4 – Mother Writing Chapter 5 – Bad Mothers Conclusion – Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater IndexReviewsAuthor InformationAlice Braun is a senior lecturer at the Université de Paris Nanterre in France. She has been researching self-life writing by women and is the author of several articles on Janet Frame, Rachel Cusk, Sylvia Plath, and Doris Lessing. Lately, she has been working on the representation of motherhood in literary texts, and particularly childbirth. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |