Åström, Berit
The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination
1. Introduction—Explaining and Exploring the Dead or Absent Mother
Berit Åström
Part I. Theorizing the Absent Mother
2. The Lady Vanishes: The Rise of the Spectral Mother
Marilyn Francus
Part II. The Absent Mother as Protector and Advisor
3. Saintly Protection: The Postmortem ‘Mothers’ of Medieval Hagiography
Mary Beth Long
4. ‘Be War Be My Wo’: Gaynour and Her Mother in
Amanda Bohne
5. Dead Mothers and Absent Stepmothers in Slovak and Romani Fairy Tales
Katarina Labudova
6. ‘A dumme thynge’: The Posthumous Voice as Rhetoric in the Mothers’ Legacies of Dorothy Leigh and Elizabeth Joscelin
Ailsa Grant Ferguson
Part III. Shakespeare’s Absent Mothers Revisited
7. ‘Born in a tempest when my mother died’: Shakespeare’s Motherless Daughters
Jess Hamlet
8. Ophelia’s Mother: The Phantom of Maternity in Shakespeare’s
Rebecca Potter, Elizabeth Ann Mackay
9. Missing Mothers on the Page and Stage:
Anna Fraser Mackenzie
Part IV. The Absent Mother as Expendable, or a Threat
10. A Side of Family, Hold the Mother: Dare Wright and Her Fictive Kin in the Lonely Doll Series
Heather Brown-Hudson
11. Dead, But Not Gone: Mother and Othermother in Holly Black and Ted Naifeh’s
Kirsten Møllegaard
12. Victims and Villains: The Legacy of Mother Blame in Violent-Eye American Literature
Joanna Wilson-Scott
13. Symbolic Matricide Gone Awry: On Absent and—Maybe Even Worse—Present Mothers in Horror Movies
Eike Träger
Part V. Absent Mothers on the Big and Small Screen in the New Millennium
14. Television and the Absent Mother: Why Girls and Young Women Struggle to Find the Maternal Role
Rebecca Feasey
15. Marginalizing Motherhood: Postfeminist Fathers and Dead Mothers in Animated Film
Berit Åström
Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Cultural Theory, Cultural History, Family, Film History, Children's Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature
- Toimittaja
- Åström, Berit
- Julkaisija
- Springer
- Julkaisuvuosi
- 2017
- Kieli
- en
- Painos
- 1
- Sivumäärä
- 9 sivua
- Kategoria
- Taide, taidehistoria
- Tiedostomuoto
- E-kirja
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319490373
- Painetun ISBN
- 978-3-319-49036-6