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Monstrous mothers : troubling tropes /
"Motherhood is one of those roles that assumes an almost-outsized cultural importance in the significance we force it to bear. It becomes both the source of and the repository for all kinds of cultural fears. Its ubiquity perhaps makes it this perfect foil. After all, while not everyone will be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bradford, Ontario :
Demeter Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Precarious mothering. Patchwork girl : fractured maternal monsters / Anitra Goriss-Hunter
- In search of Laura's story : decolonial love and indigenous mothers of missing children / Josephine L. Savarese
- "Science put babies in my belly" : cyborg mothering and posthumanism in orphan black / Susan Harper and Jessica Smartt Gullion
- The maternal maleficent / Abigail L. Palko
- Maternal violence. "She laughed at anything" : the portrayal of the monstrous maternal in Anna Burns's No bones / Shamara Ransirini
- Central intelligence and maternal mental health : the apparently aberrant bad mother in Homeland / Aidan Moir
- Karla Homolka under maternal surveillance : a critical analysis of mainstream and social media portrayals of a released "monster" who became a mom of three / Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich
- "A victim twice" : maternal violence in the poetry of Ai / Jessica Turcat
- Mothers made monstrous. The monstrosity of maternal abandonment in the literature of women writers from the American South / Jennifer Martin
- "What Is incomprehensible" : the myth of maternal omniscience and the judgment of maternal culpability in Sue Klebold's A mother's reckoning and Monique Lépine's Aftermath / Andrea O'Reilly
- Monster mothers and mother monsters from Dracula to Stranger things / Melissa Dinsman
- "The terror of mothering" : maternal ambiguities and vulnerabilities in Helen Phillips's The need and Melanie Golding's Little darlings / Andrea O'Reilly - Coda. A trace of what it is not: the hauntings of the monstrous mother / Andrea O'Reilly.