Horrible mothers : representations across Francophone North America /
For too long the main narratives of motherhood have been oppressive and exclusionary, frequently ignoring issues of female identity--especially regarding those not conforming to traditional female stereotypes. Horrible Mothers offers a variety of perspectives for analyzing representations of the mot...
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Failing Successfully; 1. The Whore and Her Mother: Exploring Matrophobia in Nelly Arcan's Putain; 2. Horrible Mothers in Mémère's Kitchen: Queer Identity in New England Franco-America; 3. "I'm Not the Virgin Mary": Rebellious Motherhood in Grégoire Chabot's "A Life Lost"; 4. Permissive Parenting: The Awful American Mother in Nancy Huston's Lignes de faille; 5. Lucie Joubert's Ironic Rejection of Motherhood in L'envers du landau
- 6. Voicing Shame: From Fiction to Confession in the Work of Marguerite Andersen7. The Transgressive Mother in Nancy Huston's Bad Girl: Classes de littérature; 8. Forgiving the Horrible Mother: Children's Needs and Women's Desires in Twenty-First-Century Québécois Film; 9. Politics and Motherhood in Xavier Dolan's J'ai tué ma mère and Mommy; Contributors; Index
