Translating Maternal Violence: The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan - Couverture souple

Castellini, Alessandro

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1349711616 ISBN 13 : 9781349711611

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

This book provides the first full-length, English-language investigation of the multiple and often contradictory ways in which mothers who kill their children were portrayed in 1970s Japan. It offers a snapshot of a historical and social moment when motherhood was being renegotiated, and maternal violence was disrupting norms of acceptable maternal behaviour. Drawing on a wide range of original archival materials, it explores three discursive sites where the image of the murderous mother assumed a distinctive visibility: media coverage of cases of maternal filicide; the rhetoric of a newly emerging women's liberation movement known as ūman ribu; and fictional works by the Japanese writer Takahashi Takako. Using translation as a theoretical tool to decentre the West as the origin of (feminist) theorizations of the maternal, it enables a transnational dialogue for imagining mothers' potential for violence. This thought-provoking work will appeal to scholars of feminist theory, cultural studies and Japanese studies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alessandro Castellini is LSE Fellow in Transnational Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1349711616
• ISBN 13: 9781349711611
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
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