عنوان

Impossible Motherhood:

شماره

TLpq2384767816

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Impossible Motherhood:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jung, Seohyon

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

Ruses of British Colonialism and Domestic Fiction

نام ساير پديدآوران

Hofkosh, Sonia

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Tufts University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2020

نام خاص و کميت اثر

242

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Tufts University

امتياز متن

2020

متن يادداشت

Impossible Motherhood: Ruses of British Colonialism and Domestic Fiction reveals the mutually constitutive relationship between late eighteenth and early nineteenth century discourses of motherhood and the logic supporting British colonial practices around the globe. The figure of the bad mother operates as the key in my reading of a selection of novels written during this formative period of the British empire. Literary depictions of maternal failures bring into relief the expanding empire's ideological and material conditions under which ideal motherhood emerges as a national virtue. My project contends that the self-contradictory and thus impossible ideal and the colonial modes of thinking reinforce each other by normalizing gendered exploitation. The discourse of ideal motherhood simultaneously enables the imperial mechanism and helps disguise the fundamental contradictions in its operation, as the ideal restrains female sexuality and sentimentalizes the value of reproductive labor. Fictional bad mothers challenge or disrupt the development of a sentimentalized domesticity and thereby also expose the colonial tensions that haunt the construction of the British home. Beyond describing a particular role or kinship relation, impossible motherhood encapsulates the political and economic ruses of colonialism that permeate British literature and culture during the decades around the turn into the nineteenth century.

موضوع مستند نشده

British colonialism

موضوع مستند نشده

British culture

موضوع مستند نشده

Domestic fiction

موضوع مستند نشده

Eighteenth century British Literature

موضوع مستند نشده

Motherhood narratives

موضوع مستند نشده

Nineteenth century British Literature

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Hofkosh, Sonia

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jung, Seohyon

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y