{"product_id":"disjointed-perspectives-on-motherhood-9780739183175","title":"Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisjointed Perspectives on Motherhood presents the accounts of mothers who have suffered a major physical and\/or psychically traumatic accident, and, as a consequence, their minds and bodies have been drastically changed. They live under the pressure of having discovered the alter ego of their traumatized personality, and now, distressed, cannot embrace their unconditional maternal love. Instead, they enter into a phase where they face the challenge of revealing who they are as persons before accepting or motivating themselves as mothers. The mothers presented in this volume also seem to have another thing in common: their transnational, fluid, female identity as they enter into an imaginary dialog that transcends geographical and temporal perspectives on womanhood and motherhood. This collection introduces and analyzes recurrent words that define a woman''s body and mind today: fear, competition, motherhood and career rights, selfishness, ambition, destruction, distance, and identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wonderful compendium of  interpretive scholarship about arguably our most important relationship: with our mothers, and with ourselves as mothers. By turns lyrical, intense, and always thoughtful, this is textual analysis at its best. Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood invites us into the dramatic worlds of mothering and trauma, broadly defined, from 18th century English Gothic to Emersonian America—from the Igbo mothers of Nigeria, to the contemporary genre of ‘nobody memoir.’ These are literary essays in both senses of a consistently high standard, offering a wealth of fresh insights into this under-explored yet often misunderstood or ‘disjointed’ figure at the heart of all our lives. -- Fiona Giles, The University of Sydney\u003cbr\u003eA wide-ranging study of the literary representation of mothering—highlighting the socio-cultural expectations surrounding motherhood and the often traumatic consequences of these expectations. These essays examine texts of various languages from different time frames and geographical spaces. Taken together, they provide a damning critique of patriarchal society's refusal to understand the myriad experiences of mothering. -- Natalie Edwards, University of Adelaide\u003cbr\u003eDisjointed Perspective on Motherhood does the important work of denaturalizing the link between women and motherhood. Wide-ranging in scope, the essays examine women’s experiences of refusing, embracing, or struggling with motherhood, and the vast majority of them will be extremely useful to scholars working in the areas of gender and cultural studies. -- Erica Johnson, Pace University\u003cbr\u003eDisjointed Perspectives on Motherhood offers new insight into the maternal experience. Addressing the duality of nature and nurture as they come together in shaping the complex identity of ‘mother,’ it becomes clear how unrealistic and simplistic our expectations have become. The essays in this text open avenues for compassion and curiosity which will foster our understanding of one of the most important roles we may hold in our lives as women—that of mother. -- Melissa Sulkowski, Licensed Professional Counselor\u003cbr\u003eReaders will find the individual chapters to be engaging, carefully theorized, and well argued, but it is the collection’s clear, consistent focus on the unifying theme that is most impressive, even as the chapters cover a wide range of genres and historical periods. Moreover, the strong feminist approach to the theme of mothering and trauma\/displacement is a very important contribution to mothering studies, which scholars and students will appreciate. -- Pegeen Reichert Powell, Columbia College Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   Acknowledgments   Introduction   1 A Mother’s Loss of Her Daughter’s Face: Ethical Issues of Facial Disfigurement  in Natalie Kusz’s Memoir Road Song  Gudrun Grabher   2 From Child to Mother: The Disjoint Identity of Charles Robert  Maturin’s Immalee  Margarita Georgieva  3 Solving the “Crumbling” Mother in Nancy Drew  Michael Cornelius   4 Feminized and Maternal Bodies: Thresholds to Empowered Roles in Clara Reeve’s The Old English Baron  Sharon L. Decker  5 The Price We Pay: Motherhood, Marriage and the Struggle to Class Jump in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina  Tarah Sweeting-Trotter  6 Childless Motherhood: the Geopolitics of Maternal Bliss in Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven  Oana M. Chivoiu  7 Dismatria: The Quest for a Mother-Land in  Igiaba Scego’s Writings  Tatjana Babic-Wiilliams  8 ‘I wanted to hear her called Mom’: The Grieving Mother and  Lost Pregnant Daughter in Sharon Rocha’s For Laci  Jennifer Musial   9 Unwanted Mother, Unwanted Motherhood: Competing Maternities in Selby’s Requiem for a Dream  Zachary Snider   10 “She Who Dwells Alone …:” Mad Mothers, Old Spinsters and  Hysterical Women in William Wordsworth’s Poetry of 1798  Irina Strout   11 Writing, Mothering, and Traumatic Subjectivity in  Sapphire’s Push  Sherry Ziesenheim \u0026amp; Matthew J. Darling   12 Looking into the Mirror, Inscribing the Blank Slate:  18th Century Women Write about Mothering  Elizabeth Johnston  13 Wise Mother? Insane Mother? Sara Chapman Bull and the Disarticulated  Subjectivities of Turn-of-the Century Motherhood  Jacqueline Brady  14 Maternal Interruption: Reconceiving Political Spaces and Social Agency in Buchi Emecheta’s Joys of Motherhood  Mary L. Cappelli   15 Mother-less: Joan Didion’s Blue Nights and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole  Catalina Florina Florescu  Afterword   Index   About the Authors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037530358103,"sku":"9780739183175","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780739183175.jpg?v=1750936119","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disjointed-perspectives-on-motherhood-9780739183175","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}