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Family Plots : The De-Oedipalization of Popular Culture /

Family Plots traces the fault lines of the Freudian family romance and holds that the "family plot" is very much alive in post-World War II American culture. It cuts across all genres, insinuating, criticizing, reinforcing, and reinventing itself in all forms of cultural production and con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Heller, Dana A. (Dana Alice), 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Plotting the Family
  • 2. Housebreaking Freud
  • 3. The Third Sphere: Television's Romance with the Family
  • 4. The Culture of "Momism": Evan S. Conncell's Mrs. Bridge
  • 5. Rules of the Game: Anne Tyler's Searching for Caleb
  • 6. Father Trouble: Jane Smiley's The Age of Grief
  • 7. "A Possible Sharing": Ethnicizing Mother-Daughter Romance in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
  • 8. Reconstructing Kin: Toni Morrison's Beloved
  • 9. "Family" Romance (Or, How to Recognize a Queer Text When You Meet One)
  • 10. The Lesbian Dick: Policing the Family in Internal Affairs
  • 11 . Home Viewing
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index