Horrible Mothers : Representations across Francophone North America /

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For too long the main narratives of motherhood have been oppressive and exclusionary, frequently ignoring issues of female identity--especially regarding those not conforming to traditional female stereotypes. Horrible Mothers offers a variety of perspectives for analyzing representations of the mot...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bourdeau, Loïc (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Mothers in motion pictures.
Mothers in literature.
French-Canadian literature.
French American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Subjects & Themes > Women.
Meres au cinema.
Cinema > Quebec (Province) > Histoire.
Americains d'origine canadienne-française > Dans la litterature.
Meres dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine (française) > Histoire et critique.
Litterature canadienne-française > Histoire et critique.
Motion pictures > Quebec (Province) > History.
Franco-Americans > In literature.
French American literature > History and criticism.
French-Canadian literature > History and criticism.
Quebec.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Failing Successfully; 1. The Whore and Her Mother: Exploring Matrophobia in Nelly Arcan's Putain; 2. Horrible Mothers in Memere's Kitchen: Queer Identity in New England Franco-America; 3. "I'm Not the Virgin Mary": Rebellious Motherhood in Gregoire Chabot's "A Life Lost"; 4. Permissive Parenting: The Awful American Mother in Nancy Huston's Lignes de faille; 5. Lucie Joubert's Ironic Rejection of Motherhood in L'envers du landau
  • 6. Voicing Shame: From Fiction to Confession in the Work of Marguerite Andersen7. The Transgressive Mother in Nancy Huston's Bad Girl: Classes de litterature; 8. Forgiving the Horrible Mother: Children's Needs and Women's Desires in Twenty-First-Century Quebecois Film; 9. Politics and Motherhood in Xavier Dolan's J'ai tue ma mere and Mommy; Contributors; Index

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