Rövid leírás:

?The volume is an important contribution to a humanities-based approach to motherhood studies. The essays included in this impressive volume, rooted in maternal feminism, encompass a remarkable range of materials from different cultural, national, and linguistic traditions. The variety of narrative forms examined?novels, memoirs, social media posts, films, and auto-ethnographies?demonstrate how experiences of motherhood and its aftermath are not simply the source of ?a new literary genre,? but inspire daring experimentation and innovation.?

?Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Professor of Italian, Program Chair of Comparative Literary Studies, Franklin & Marshall College, USA

?This collection includes essays on pregnancy, the different forms and settings of birth, and postpartum experiences such as postpartum psychosis and lactation following the loss of the baby. Featuring work by established academics and emerging scholars alike, the volume offers a fresh view on many issues explored by motherhood studies making it essential reading for everyone interested in motherhood and feminist studies.?

?Egl? Kačkut?, Professor of French Literature and Gender Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania, and Coordinator of the MotherNet Network

This book aims to shed light on artistic works centered on mothering and reproductive experiences, ones which defy outdated stereotypes, break taboos, overcome trauma, and empower women. The goal of this collection is to contribute to this field of studies and foster our understanding of what motherhood and mothering really look like in our society. Throughout this collaborative volume, the voices of established and emerging scholars merge to broaden the discourse on maternity by examining the complex and constantly evolving maternal experiences that are unique and yet transnational and universal in their essence. 

Laura Lazzari is a Scientific Collaborator at the Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities, Switzerland, and an Affiliate Faculty and Scholar at Georgetown University, USA.

Giulia Po DeLisle is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Italian Language and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.

Hosszú leírás:

This book aims to shed light on artistic works centered on mothering and reproductive experiences, ones which defy outdated stereotypes, break taboos, overcome trauma, and empower women. The goal of this collection is to contribute to this field of studies and foster our understanding of what motherhood and mothering really look like in our society. Throughout this collaborative volume, the voices of established and emerging scholars merge to broaden the discourse on maternity by examining the complex and constantly evolving maternal experiences that are unique and yet transnational and universal in their essence. 

Tartalomjegyzék:

Chapter 1: Unmasking New Maternal Realities.- Section 1: The Pregnant and Puerperal Body.- Chapter 2: Expecting, Silent, Alone: Representation of Pregnancy in Núria Pompeia?s Maternasis.- Chapter 3: Mothers and Aliens: Biotechnology and the Pregnant Body in Octavia Butler?s Xenogenesis Series.- Chapter 4: Jazmina Barrera, Isabel Zapata, and the ?Counter-Canon? of Motherhood Literature.- Chapter 5: Mediating Maternity: Laughter and Mom Humor on Social Media.- Section 2: Postpartum (Depression, Loss, Stillborn, Trauma).- Chapter 6: What Greater Grief? Trauma Theory and The Rules Do Not Apply.- Chapter 7: Fanciful Mourning: Daydreams and Maternal Ambivalence in Heather O?Neill?s The Lonely Hearts Hotel.- Chapter 8: La Piet? on Broadway: Postpartum Bereavement and Wet Nurses on the American Stage.- Chapter 9: Peripartum Depression and Maternal Ambivalence in Helen Dunmore?s Talking to the Dead.- Section 3: Alternative Spaces.- Chapter 10: Alternative Birth Spaces, Midwifery Care, and Empowered Birth in Transnational Contemporary Literature.- Chapter 11: Birthing Resistance: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Homebirth as Embodied Defiance of Medicalization.- Chapter 12: Maternal Inclination and the Politics of Immunity in Emma Donoghue?s The Pull of the Stars.- Chapter 13: Magdalene Trauma-Telling in Aotearoa New Zealand Literature. A Comparative Study of Two Female Bildungsroman: Does This Make Sense to You? by Rene?e (1994), and Rich Man Road by Ann Glamuzina (2015).- Chapter 14: Conflicting Maternal Feelings in the Space of the Hogar: Duties and Desires in Maura Delpero?s Maternal.