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Motherhood and creativity in contemporary self-life writing : writers and mothers / Alice Braun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Braun, Alice, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in women's literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women authors--Biography--History and criticism.
- Women authors.
- Mothers--Biography--History and criticism.
- Mothers.
- Autobiography--Women authors.
- Autobiography.
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Motherhood in literature.
- Motherhood.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 179 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
- Biography/History:
- Alice Braun is a senior lecturer at the Universiť de Paris Nanterre in France. She has been researching self-life writing by women and is the author of several articles on Janet Frame, Rachel Cusk, Sylvia Plath, and Doris Lessing. Lately, she has been working on the representation of motherhood in literary texts, and particularly childbirth.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A sound-proof room of one's own
- The impossible subject
- To have and have not
- On pregnancy and childbirth
- Mother writing
- Bad mothers
- Conclusion: Throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 29, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Braun, Alice, 1980- Motherhood and creativity in contemporary self-life writing
- ISBN:
- 9781003461388
- 1003461387
- 9781040111529
- 1040111521
- 9781040111536
- 104011153X
- Publisher Number:
- 40032440130
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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