Making babies : infants in Canadian fiction / Sandra Sabatini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sabatini, Sandra, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infants in literature.

Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Canadian fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Although the infant has been a consistent figure in literature (and, for many people, a significant figure in personal life), there’s been little attention focused on infants, or on their place in Canadian fiction, until now. In this book, Sandra Sabatini examines Canadian fiction to trace the ideological charge behind the represented infant. Examining writers from L.M. Montgomery and Frederick Philip Grove to Thomas King and Terry Griggs, Sabatini compares women’s writing about babies with the way infants appear in texts by men over the course of a century. She discovers a range of changing attitudes toward babies. After being seen as a source of financial burden, social shame, or sentimental fantasy, infants have increasingly become a source of value and meaning. The book challenges the perception of babies as passive objects of care and argues for a reading of the infant as a subject in itself. It also reflects upon how the representations of infancy in Canadian literature offer an intriguing portrait of how we imagine ourselves."-from Amazon.com

Contents:

Introduction; Chapter One: Early Twentieth-Century Infants; Chapter Two: Two Men and a Lady: (Il)legitimacy in Infant Representation, 1940-60; Chapter Three: Speaking of Reproduction: The 1960's and 1970's; Chapter Four: Wider Truth: Infants in the 1980's and 1990's; Chapter Five: The Hope of the World; Chapter Six: The Subject of the Dream Is the Dreamer

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 231-242.

ISBN:

9786610925742

9781280925740

1280925744

9780889206212

088920621X

OCLC:

753479584