{"product_id":"horrible-mothers-9780803293984","title":"Horrible Mothers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a variety of perspectives for analyzing representations of the mother in francophone literature and film at the turn of the twenty-first century in North America, including Québec, Ontario, New England, and California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This timely volume invigorates scholarly attention to the role of the mother in culture and advocates for a reading of motherhood and maternity imbued with empowering potential for all women whose value is measured according to social expectations of mothers.\"—Jocelyn A. Frelier, \u003ci\u003eFrench Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This collection will be of interest to those studying mothers and motherhood in literature of any language as well as scholars of Francophone North America.\"—D. L. Boudreau, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This multidisciplinary collection of essays from a francophone North American context constitutes an important challenge to normalizing and oppressive discourses of motherhood that fail to take account of the much messier and often ambivalent nature of lived maternal experiences. . . . We are reminded in this collection of the dangers of the cultural idealization of mothers and the ongoing need to deconstruct normative motherhood from a feminist perspective.”—Julie Rodgers, lecturer in French studies and member of the Motherhood Project, Maynooth University (Ireland)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Failing Successfully\u003cbr\u003e Loïc Bourdeau\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Whore and Her Mother: Exploring Matrophobia in Nelly Arcan’s \u003ci\u003ePutain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pauline Henry-Tierney\u003cbr\u003e 2. Horrible Mothers in \u003ci\u003eMémère\u003c\/i\u003e’s Kitchen: Queer Identity in New England Franco-America\u003cbr\u003e Susan Pinette\u003cbr\u003e 3. “I’m Not the Virgin Mary”: Rebellious Motherhood in Grégoire Chabot’s “A Life Lost”\u003cbr\u003e Chelsea Ray\u003cbr\u003e 4. Permissive Parenting: The Awful American Mother in Nancy Huston’s \u003ci\u003eLignes de faille\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Alison Rice\u003cbr\u003e 5. Lucie Joubert’s Ironic Rejection of Motherhood in \u003ci\u003eL’envers du landau\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Natalie Edwards\u003cbr\u003e 6. Voicing Shame: From Fiction to Confession in the Work of Marguerite Andersen\u003cbr\u003e Lucie Hotte and Ariane Brun del Re\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Transgressive Mother in Nancy Huston’s \u003ci\u003eBad Girl: Classes de littérature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx\u003cbr\u003e 8. Forgiving the Horrible Mother: Children’s Needs and Women’s Desires in Twenty-First-Century Québécois Film\u003cbr\u003e Amy J. Ransom\u003cbr\u003e 9. Politics and Motherhood in Xavier Dolan’s \u003ci\u003eJ’ai tué ma mère\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMommy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Loïc Bourdeau\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405296836951,"sku":"9780803293984","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803293984.jpg?v=1730489535","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/horrible-mothers-9780803293984","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}