Trauma and motherhood in contemporary literature and culture / Laura Lazzari, Nathalie Ségeral, editors.

Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture repositions motherhood studies through the lens of trauma theory by exploring new challenges surrounding conception, pregnancy, and postpartum experiences. Chapters investigate nine case studies of motherhood trauma and recovery in literat...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Lazzari, Laura (Editor), Ségeral, Nathalie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Trauma and Recovery New Challenges to Motherhood
  • Part I: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Trauma
  • 2. Understanding the Trauma of Pervasive Pregnancy Denial in Lenfant que je nattendais pas
  • 3. Salvaging the Bones Means Fighting for Reproductive Justice: Jesmyn Wards Literary Representations of the Trauma Produced by Attacks on Reproductive Rights, Comprehensive Sex Education, and Access to Maternal Health Care
  • 4. Social Trauma and the Anti-Maternal Body in Diane a les epaule
  • Part II: Trauma and Disrupted Mother-Child Bonds
  • 5. Trauma Behind Bars: Maternal Dilemma in Rossella Schillacis Ninna nanna prigioniera
  • 6. Pour dire la souffrance des innocents? Problematics of the Madonna-Son Trope in Representing Trauma in Philippe Aractingis Under the Bombs and Nadine Labakis Capernaum
  • 7. Traumatic Memory and Narrative Healing in Contemporary Diasporic Chinese British Womens Writing
  • Part III. New Challenges with ART
  • 8. Tragedy, In Vitro: The Function of Reproductive Science in Simon Stones Adaptation of Yerma
  • 9. I have an enterprise: Transnational Surrogacy, Neoliberal Repropreneurship, and the Potential Trauma of Clinical Labor in Zippi Brand Franks Google Baby
  • 10. No Trauma for Artificial Women: Monstrous, Cybernetics, and Anomalous Mothers in Current Latin American Science Fiction.