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Bearing others : = Maternity at the margins of modernism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bearing others :/
Reminder of title:	Maternity at the margins of modernism.
Author:	Linnemann, Amy E. C.
Description:	1 online resource (240 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 73-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International73-12A.
Subject:	Modern literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3509933click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781267370082

Bearing others : = Maternity at the margins of modernism.
Linnemann, Amy E. C.

Bearing others :Maternity at the margins of modernism. - 1 online resource (240 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 73-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references

By focusing on the phenomenon of childbirth, this study endeavors to flesh out a literary trope that, while voluble in its engagement with narrative perspective, aesthetic innovation, and social progress, lacks subjective maternal representation. Looking at books by Edith Summers Kelley, Pearl Buck, and Enid Bagnold - all of whom openly infuse their prose with the phenomenological investiture of having given birth - I begin to map the territory of material maternity at the margins of modernist literature. Framing this map, chapter one enumerates the various iterations of the childbirth trope within the canon. Ernest Hemingway's "Indian Camp," Virginia Woolf's Orlando, and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath anchor my discussions of trends that mark modernism's portrayal of women given birth. By examining the speculative gaze, the abstraction of birth into a metaphor for aesthetic innovation, and the interpolation of birth as a device for engaging eugenic ideologies, my first chapter lays the groundwork for recovering texts that announce the birthing mother as a sentient, thoughtful, volitional subject, a perspective under-represented within the canon. Edith Summers Kelley's Weeds, the book examined closely in chapter two, describes one woman's traumatic experience of maternity. This chapter looks at two specific voids engendered by the excision of Kelley's depiction of childbirth from Weeds: the narrative break within the novel and the gap in matrilineal literary scholarship. My third chapter examines a very different articulation of maternal subjectivity in Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth. By elaborating O-lan's interiority, authority, and agency - all rooted in her material experience of maternity - this chapter illustrates Buck's contribution to a more comprehensive view of childbirth in modernist literature. Finally, chapter four elaborates a generative conveyance of maternal subjectivity in the fiction of Enid Bagnold and philosophical prose of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Taken together, Gilman's His Religion and Hers and Bagnold's The Squire contribute a unique ethical perspective to this survey of maternal narratives. By tracing the various contributions of birth narratives in literature from the 1920s and 30s, I hope to inform a more plastic canonical view of subjective maternal experience.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781267370082Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122750
Modern literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Bagnold, EnidIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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