The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination Missing, Presumed Dead

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 and culture that produced the various narratives, and as part of an on-going cultural conversation that spans the centuries, resulting in an innovative text that will be of great interest to all scholars of gender, feminist and media studies.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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).

Zusammenfassung

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 and culture that produced the various narratives, and as part of an on-going cultural conversation that spans the centuries, resulting in an innovative text that will be of great interest to all scholars of gender, feminist and media studies.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Berit Åström (Herausgeber), Beri Åström (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2017
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sonstiges
• EAN: 9783319490366
• ISBN: 978-3-31-949036-6
• Anzahl Seiten: 264
• Illustration: IX, 264 p.
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 15.4 x 21.6 x 2 cm
• Gewicht (Verpackung): 492 g
• Themen: Kulturgeschichte, Literaturwissenschaft, Soziologie, Sozialgeschichte, Englisch, Radio, Kultursoziologie, B, TV, Kulturwissenschaften, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, family, Social & cultural history, Wissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaften, Geschichte / Sozialgeschichte, Geschichte / Kulturgeschichte, England / Sprache, Fernsehen - Privatfernsehen, Film / Theorie, Analyse, Soziologie / Familie, Jugend, Alter, Film / Kritik, Rezeption, Film / Geschichte, Radiotechnik, Film History, Sociology: family & relationships, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Family Law, Literary studies: general, families, Culture—Study and teaching, Civilization—History, Families—Social aspects, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Film and TV History, Motion pictures—History, Film history, theory & criticism, Children's Literature, Children’s & teenage literature studies: general