Womb Fantasies : Subjective Architectures in Postmodern Literature, Cinema, and Art / Caroline Rupprecht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rupprecht, Caroline.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood in art.

Motherhood in motion pictures.

Motherhood in literature.

Human beings in art.

Human body in motion pictures.

Human body in literature.

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 132 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Womb Fantasies examines the womb, an invisible and mysterious space invested with allegorical significance, as a metaphorical space in postwar cinematic and literary texts grappling with the trauma of post-holocaust, postmodern existence.

Contents:

Frontispiece: Eero Saarinen's Womb chair as fallout shelter

Part one: Geographies

Agoraphobia: Marguerite Duras's Hiroshima mon amour and The vice-consul

Heterotopia: Alexander Kluge's Yesterday girl and The blind director

Part two: Boundaries

Matricide: Uwe Johnson's Anniversaries: from the life of Gesine Cresspahl

Womb envy: Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, A woman is a woman, and Hail Mary

End piece: the future is here, and it's dead: Damien Hirst's Virgin mother.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-123) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8101-6663-1

OCLC:

867740236