Trauma and motherhood in contemporary literature and culture 1st ed.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Lazzari, Laura
• Segeral, Nathalie

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030774073

Series

Subject(s)

• LITERATURE, MODERN
• MOTHERHOOD IN LITERATURE
• PSYCHIC TRAUMA IN LITERATURE

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Abstract

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 literature and culture from the last twenty years by exploring their emotional consequences through the lens of trauma, resilience, and “working through” theories. Contributions engage with a transnational corpus drawn from the five continents and span topics as rarely discussed as pregnancy denial, surrogacy, voluntary or involuntary childlessness, racism and motherhood, carceral mothering practices, surrogacy, IVF, artificial wombs, and mothering through war, genocide, and migration. Accompanied by an online creative supplement, this volume deals with silenced aspects of embodied motherhood while enhancing a better understanding of the cathartic effects of storytelling.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xii, 242 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

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

Exemplar(s)

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