EAN: 9783031172137

NARRATIVES OF MOTHERHOOD AND MOTHERING IN FICTI...

This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented
in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad
range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places  thematic concerns  and theoretical and
interdisciplinary approaches  it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for
understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective
experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular
national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in
one national context  as well as those who are in in-between positions due to migrant
experiences. The contributions foreground and link together the themes central to the volume:
embodied experience and maternal embodiment  notions of what is normal or natural (or not)
about motherhood  maternal health and illness  mother-daughter relations maternality and memory
and the (im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise questions about how
motherhood and mothering are marked by absence and or presence  as well as by profound
ambivalences.

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