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The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination. Missing, Presumed Dead.
Berit . Ed(S): Astrom
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Hardback. Editor(s): Astrom, Berit. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSB; DSY; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions. Across historical periods and genres, this dialogue has been employed to articulate and debate questions of politics and religion, social and cultural change as well as issues of power and authority within the family. Åström seeks to investigate the many functions and meanings of the dialogue by covering extensive material from the 1200s to 2014 including hagiography, romances, folktales, plays, novels, children’s literature and graphic novels, as well as film and television. This is achieved by looking at the discourse both as products of the time ... Read more
This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions. Across historical periods and genres, this dialogue has been employed to articulate and debate questions of politics and religion, social and cultural change as well as issues of power and authority within the family. Åström seeks to investigate the many functions and meanings of the dialogue by covering extensive material from the 1200s to 2014 including hagiography, romances, folktales, plays, novels, children’s literature and graphic novels, as well as film and television. This is achieved by looking at the discourse both as products of the time ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319490366
SKU
V9783319490366
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Ref
99-15
About Berit . Ed(S): Astrom
Berit Åström is an Associate Professor of English at Umeå University, Sweden. She is the author of ‘The Symbolic Annihilation of Mothers in Popular Culture: Single Father and the Death of the Mother’, Feminist Media Studies 15.4 (2015) and the editor of Rape in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy and Beyond (2013).
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