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Embracing the "mama's boy": Mothers ...

Walker, Jeffrey A.

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Embracing the "mama's boy": Mothers and adult sons in (post?)feminist America.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Embracing the "mama's boy": Mothers and adult sons in (post?)feminist America./
Author:	Walker, Jeffrey A.
Description:	232 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-08, Section: A, page: 3130.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-08A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9542297

Embracing the "mama's boy": Mothers and adult sons in (post?)feminist America.
Walker, Jeffrey A.

Embracing the "mama's boy": Mothers and adult sons in (post?)feminist America. - 232 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-08, Section: A, page: 3130.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 1995.

While mothers and daughters have in recent years received considerable scholarly attention, the questions surrounding mothers and sons remain relatively taboo. This dissertation doubly violates the taboo. Through close textual analysis, it theorizes a strong, vibrant post-Oedipal bond between feminist mothers and their adult sons, and it fleshes out a model for a maternally grounded, feminist-inspired practice of "filial" reading.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature.

Embracing the "mama's boy": Mothers and adult sons in (post?)feminist America.
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520 $a Chapter 1 investigates the place of the adult son in Adrienne Rich's Of Women Born, paying special attention to her bold recasting of Freud: in her hands, he becomes the mother's son whose life undercuts his Oedipal theory. Chapter 2 explores William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and David Leavitt's Equal Affections, highlighting the amazing fantasy of maternal resurrection which these historically disparate novels share. Chapter 3 reads Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy alongside Tennessee Williams's Auto-Da-Fe and The Glass Menagerie, probing the way these gaily theatrical texts stage the tumultuous love between husbandless mothers and their grownup sons. Chapter 4 focusses on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's diva-like status within gay studies, reading her Epistemology of the Closet (and Between Men), as well as responsive texts by David Van Leer, David Bergman, Christopher Castiglia, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Thomas Yingling. Chapter 5 attends to the work of Jane Gallop and, also, to her working, pedagogical role as this dissertation's director. After examining Gallop's textually rigorous, famously fleshy practice of symptomatic reading, the chapter scrutinizes her "Knot a Love Story," a shockingly candid, endlessly vexing essay that attempts to rethink the sameness and difference of seducing and educing, the all-too-familiar (dis)entanglement of erotic and pedagogical desires.
520 $a By "embracing" the "mama's boy," this dissertation confronts patriarchy's deepest, most poisonously coiled fears: of femininity and maternity; of transgressive masculinities; of any non-patriarchal alliances between women and men. The dissertation intersects with important, ongoing debates in gender, literary, and cultural studies; gay theory; psychoanalytic feminism; autobiographical criticism; and institutional politics. At perhaps the broadest level, it offers a fresh contribution to an old, fractious, absolutely vital cultural conversation about families, love and sex, power and authority.
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