Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama

by 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;...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415011272

ISBN13:9780415011273

Release Date:July 1992

Publisher:Routledge

Length:266 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

American Literature Classics Criticism & Theory Gay & Lesbian History History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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