Alice Braun

Motherhood and Creativity in Contemporary Self-Life Writing (eBook, ePUB)

Writers and Mothers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It discusses the issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine their literary vocation with their duties to their children and it highlights the role of cultural myths in our representations of what being an author and a mother entails.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040111536
• Artikelnr.: 72272702

Autorenporträt

Alice Braun is a senior lecturer at the Université de Paris Nanterre in France. She has been researching self-life writing by women and is the author of several articles on Janet Frame, Rachel Cusk, Sylvia Plath, and Doris Lessing. Lately, she has been working on the representation of motherhood in literary texts, and particularly childbirth.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction
A Sound
Proof Room of One's Own Chapter 1
The Impossible Subject Chapter 2
To Have and Have Not Chapter 3
On Pregnancy and Childbirth Chapter 4
Mother Writing Chapter 5
Bad Mothers Conclusion
Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater Index