The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination: Missing, Presumed Dead - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3319840738 ISBN 13 : 9783319840734

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

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, children’s 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and Beyond (2013).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319840738
• ISBN 13: 9783319840734
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Éditeur: Åström Berit
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