The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination: Missing, Presumed Dead by Berit ?

Description: The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination by Berit Åström This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions. Across historical periods and genres, this dialogue has been employed to articulate and debate questions of politics and religion, social and cultural change as well as issues of power and authority within the family. Åström seeks to investigate the many functions and meanings of the dialogue by covering extensive material from the 1200s to 2014 including hagiography, romances, folktales, plays, novels, childrens literature and graphic novels, as well as film and television. This is achieved by looking at the discourse both as products of the time and culture that produced the various narratives, and as part of an on-going cultural conversation that spans the centuries, resulting in an innovative text that will be of great interest to all scholars of gender, feminist and media studies. Back Cover This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions. Across historical periods and genres, this dialogue has been employed to articulate and debate questions of politics and religion, social and cultural change as well as issues of power and authority within the family. Author Biography Berit Åström is an Associate Professor of English at Umeå University, Sweden. She is the author of The Symbolic Annihilation of Mothers in Popular Culture: Single Father and the Death of the Mother, Feminist Media Studies 15.4 (2015) and the editor of Rape in Stieg Larssons Millennium Trilogy and Beyond (2013). Table of Contents 1. Introduction.- 2. The Lady Vanishes: The Rise of the Spectral Mother.- 3. Saintly Protection: The Post-Mortem Mothersof Medieval Hagiography.- 4. Be War Be My Wo: Gaynour and Her Mother in The Awntyrs off Arthure.- 5. A dumme thynge: The Posthumous Voice as Rhetoric in the Mothers Legacies of Dorothy Leigh and Elizabeth Joscelin.- 6. Dead Mothers and Absent Stepmothers in Slovak and Romani Fairy Tales.- 7. Born in a Tempest when My Mother Died: Shakespeares Motherless Daughter.- 8. Ophelias Mother: The Phantom of Maternity in Shakepseares Hamlet.- 9. Missing Mothers on the Page and Stage: Hamlet and Henry V.- 10. A Side of the Family, Hold the Mother: Dare Wright and Her Fictive Kin in the Lonely Doll Series.- 11. Dead, but not Gone: Mother and Othermother in Holly Black and Ted Naifehs The Good Neighbours.- 12. Victims and Villains: The Legacy of Mother Blame in Violent-Eye American Literature.- 13. Symbolic Matricide goneAwry: On Absent and - Maybe Even Worse - Present Mothers in Horror Movies.- 14. Television and the Absent Mother: Why Girls and Young Women Struggle to Find the Maternal Role.- 15. Marginalizing Motherhood: Postfeminist Fathers and Dead Mothers in Animated Film.- Feature Provides a broader historical perspective on the trope of the dead or absent mother, spanning material from the 1200s to 2014 Cuts across genres and media, providing an interdisciplinary perspective Authors employ a variety of different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, including psychoanalysis, cultural studies, feminist and gender studies Details ISBN3319490362 Year 2017 ISBN-10 3319490362 ISBN-13 9783319490366 Format Hardcover Language English Media Book Edition 1st Imprint Springer International Publishing AG Subtitle Missing, Presumed Dead Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Pages 264 Publication Date 2017-07-20 Short Title The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49037-3 UK Release Date 2017-07-20 Illustrations IX, 264 p. Author Berit Åström Publisher Springer International Publishing AG Edition Description 1st ed. 2017 Alternative 9783319840734 Edited by Berit Åström DEWEY 809.9335252 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:130676184;

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