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Writing the Modern Family
Contemporary Literature, Motherhood and Neoliberal Culture
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2021
Summary
Although a large body of work has emerged which addresses neoliberal representations of the family in other cultural forms (such as parenting advice programmes) little has been written specifically on the family and contemporary literature. This book examines the growing body of autobiographical and fictional writing on family and parenting issues in Anglo-American culture from the late 1990s to the present day.
The book looks closely at six distinct genres which have arisen during this time frame: the misery memoir, the mum’s lit popular novel, the maternal confessional, ‘dads’ lit, the dysfunctional domestic novel and the family noir. Writing the Modern Family will examine the way these burgeoning areas of British and American writing respond to a neoliberal public discourse in which a ‘parenting deficit’ rather than economic and structural disadvantage, is responsible for increasing inequality in child welfare and achievement. In evaluating these forms and their relationship to neoliberal culture, the book will also consider the complex interrelationship between these genres.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-78660-518-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-78660-519-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
191
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Acknowledgements No access
Introduction: Writing Home: The Return to the Domestic in Women’s Fiction No access Pages 1 - 20
1 I Blame the Parents: Class, Race and Mother-Hate in Contemporary Misery Memoirs No access Pages 21 - 44
2 Novels and Children: ‘Mums Lit’ and the Public Mother/Author No access Pages 45 - 70
3 Maternal Memoirs: Truth, Myth and Resistance in the Work of Chua, Myerson and Cusk No access Pages 71 - 96
4 Fathers Know Best: ‘Dads Lit’ and the Childcare Wars of the Mid-2000s No access Pages 97 - 118
5 Angels and Demons: Mother/Son Conflict and Bonding in the ‘Dysfunctional’ Domestic Novel No access Pages 119 - 142
6 A Home of One’s Own: Domestic Crime Fiction, Motherhood and Property No access Pages 143 - 162
Conclusion: A #metoo for Motherhood? No access Pages 163 - 168
