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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... and the French Feminists; and the mother as she is figured in literary and film texts such as East Lynne, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Christopher Strong, Imitation of Life, Three Men and a Baby, and The Handmaid's Tale. Kaplan's analysis ...
... and the Humanities Research Center (HRC) at Australian National University for a Fellowship during that time. I revised the MS while at HRC, and delivered papers on Chapter 9 at several Australian universities. I thank the various ...
... and the influences particularly of Julia Kristeva and Monique Plaza from France, and of American theorists attempting to combine French and American psychoanalytic perspectives, will be obvious (cf. Dinnerstein 1976; Friday 1981; Dally ...
... and the unconscious mother. The fourth mother, who may be called the “real life” mother (the bodily mother) or the historical figure who interacts daily with her child (and who can be studied by social scientists) lies outside my ...
... and the nineteenth century to postmodernism. I locate a pre-modern mother (who lies beyond my frame); an early modern mother (who emerges in Europe with Rousseau and the institutions needed by the first Industrial Revolution, but whose ...
Contents
WOMENS WRITING MELODRAMA AND FILM | |
THE SACRIFICE PARADIGM Ellen Woods | |
THE PHALLIC MOTHER PARADIGM | |
THE RESISTING MATERNAL WOMANS FILM 193060 Arzners | |
Consumerism science | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Names index | |
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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 |