Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama

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Routledge, 1992 - Family & Relationships - 250 pages
From 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 EMEast Lynne, Marnie and the EMT.

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INTRODUCTION
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THE PSYCHOANALYTIC SPHERE
27
Motherhood and fictional representation
57
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