Motherhood and Representation

The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama

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E.Ann Kaplan

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From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representation , E. Ann Kaplan considers how the mother appears in three related spheres: the historical, in which she charts changing representations of the mother from 1830 to the postmodernist present; the psychoanalytic, which discusses theories of the mother from Freud to Lacan and the French Feminists; and the mother as she is figured in cultural representations: in literary and film texts such as East Lynne, Marnie and The Handmaid's Tale . Kaplan's analysis identifies two dominant Western paradigms of the mother as Angel' and Witch', evident in nineteenth century women's writing and twentieth century women's film'. Charting the contesting and often contradictory discourses of the mother in present-day America, she argues that modern reproductive technologies have created dramatic changes in the representation of the mother figure.

Author Biography:

E. Ann Kaplan is Professor of English and Comparative Studies and Director of the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, the State University of New York. She is the author of Women and Film and Rocking Around the Clock, and editor of Psychoanalysis and Cinema.

Release date NZ

May 7th, 1992

Author

E.Ann Kaplan

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

266

Dimensions

156x234x18

ISBN-13

9780415011273

Product ID

1677979

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