Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and MelodramaFrom novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation, E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical, in which she charts changing representations of the mother from 1830 to the postmodernist present; the psychoanalytic, which discusses theories of the mother from Freud to Lacan and the French Feminists; and the mother as she is figured in cultural representations: in literary and film texts such as East Lynne, Marnie and the The Handmaid's Tale, as well as in journalism and popular manuals on motherhood. Kaplan's analysis identifies two dominant paradigms of the mother as `Angel' and `Witch', and charts the contesting and often contradictory discourses of the mother in present-day America. |
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... century women's writing and twentieth-century women's melodrama. She includes discussion of the appropriation of minority mother-discourse, and then charts the contesting and often contradictory discourses of the mother in present-day ...
... century women's writing and twentieth-century women's melodrama. She includes discussion of the appropriation of minority mother-discourse, and then charts the contesting and often contradictory discourses of the mother in present-day ...
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... century — History and criticism. 2. Mothers in literature. 3. American literature — 19th century — History and criticism. 4. Motion pictures and literature — United States. 5. Women and literature — United States. 6. United States ...
... century — History and criticism. 2. Mothers in literature. 3. American literature — 19th century — History and criticism. 4. Motion pictures and literature — United States. 5. Women and literature — United States. 6. United States ...
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... century women's writing and the “maternal woman's film” in the silent era: Uncle Tom's Cabin; Herland; The Blot; The Crowd; Applause 8 THE “RESISTING” MATERNAL WOMAN'S FILM 1930—60. Arzner's Christopher Strong and Craig's Wife ...
... century women's writing and the “maternal woman's film” in the silent era: Uncle Tom's Cabin; Herland; The Blot; The Crowd; Applause 8 THE “RESISTING” MATERNAL WOMAN'S FILM 1930—60. Arzner's Christopher Strong and Craig's Wife ...
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... century, motherhood will be something else again. This book records how motherhood was shaped by the nineteenth century for the first half of the twentieth century for white, middle-class women living in North America. It is written at ...
... century, motherhood will be something else again. This book records how motherhood was shaped by the nineteenth century for the first half of the twentieth century for white, middle-class women living in North America. It is written at ...
Contents
Part II Motherhood and fictional representation | 57 |
Notes | 220 |
Bibliography | 227 |
Names index | 239 |
Subject index | 245 |
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Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama E. Ann Kaplan Limited preview - 2013 |
Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama E. Ann Kaplan No preview available - 1992 |
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