عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA120317
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Childless Mothers and Motherless Children
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
CLARE COUNIHAN
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Mma Ramotswe, the heroine of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels and their adaptations, is proud of "being a traditionally built African lady unlike these terrible stick-like creatures one saw in the advertisements." This crisis of the 'traditional' and the 'modern' erupts in the representation in the novels and television series of Mma Ramotswe's sexuality and mothering, the texts' failures to acknowledge or negotiate the inconsistencies of its deployment of the 'traditional' and the 'modern', and the resulting dilemma of (national) reproduction when sex is not an option. Further, neither text integrates its explicit celebration of 'traditional values' with the professional opportunities that 'being modern' affords Mma Ramotswe. Attempting to negotiate this disjunction, the texts divest Mma Ramotswe of any 'modern' sexual attitudes or actions - the ones that produce offspring - while still providing her with those fruits: children. Both written and visual representations systematically negate any possibility that Mma Ramotswe might participate in any reproductive activity of her own. A mother without children to children without mothers, Mma Ramotswe figures postcolonial reproduction as a sexless, passionless transaction, while both texts align any sex with the probability of pain, betrayal, and death.
SET
Date of Publication
2016
Physical description
221-245
Title
Matatu
Volume Number
47/1
International Standard Serial Number
1875-7421
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
African Studies
Subject Term
Comparative Studies & World Literature
Subject Term
Criticism & Theory
Subject Term
Cultural History
Subject Term
Literature & Culture
Subject Term
Literature and Cultural Studies
Subject Term
Postcolonial Literature & Culture
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
CLARE COUNIHAN
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/18757421-90000403
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب p
[Article]
275578
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