Eva Paulino Bueno, Terry Caesar, William Hummel

Naming the Father

Legacies, Genealogies, and Explorations of Fatherhood in Modern and Contemporary Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Naming the Father is a collection of essays on the subject of fatherhood: its enduring power, its secret roses, its unsettling provocations. Despite the considerable critical attention devoted to motherhood in literature -- and despite the late-twentieth-century focus on patriarchy -- there is surprisingly no comparable collection on fatherhood. This volume was born of the conclusion that critics of modern and contemporary literature may comprehend the father too little for presuming to have comprehended patriarchy so much.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 147mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780739100929
• ISBN-10: 0739100920
• Artikelnr.: 21359273

Autorenporträt

By Eva Paulino Bueno; Terry Caesar and William Hummel - Contributions by Kent Baxter; Gaylord Brewer; Laura Alonso Gallo; Jonathan Gill; Geoffrey Galt Harpham; Valrie Loichot; Antonia Dominiguez Miguela; Elaine Pigeon; Kathryn Reisdorfer; Roger Sale; Kers

Inhaltsangabe

chapter 1 Acknowledgments chapter 2 Introduction: Naming the Dead Father
chapter 3 Part One: The Father in Memory. The Business of Mourning chapter
4 Two Fingers of Chat chapter 5 The Culture of My Childhood. Part Two:
Fathers in Ethnic Culture. Performative Fathers and the Inessential Macho:
Fatherhood in Contemporary Latino/Latina Literature chapter 6 Negations and
Subversions of Paternal Authorities in Glissant's Fictional Works (Le
Quatrime Sicle, La Case du commandeur, Tout-monde) chapter 7 Holy and
Unholy Ghosts: The Legacy of the Father in the Plays of August Wilson. Part
Three: Fathers and Daughters. The Legacy of "The Unspeakable Father" in
Henry James's The Wings of the Dove chapter 8 Generating Alternative
Representations of Fatherhood: Anzia Yezierska and Dorothy Canfield
Fisher's Narrative Spaces for Male Others chapter 9 The Daughters of
Memory: The Modernist Poet as Father. Part Four: Beyond the Father. Oedipus
and the Modernist Aesthetic: Reconceiving the Social in Rebecca West's The
Return of the Soldier chapter 10 Naming the Father: Genealogy, Spectacle,
and Jack Nicholson in Going Native chapter 11 Original Chaos Restored:
Paternal Fictions in William S. Burroughs chapter 12 Works Cited chapter 13
Index