Motherhood in Literature and Culture

Gill Rye is Professor Emerita at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, UK.Victoria Browne is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK.Adalgisa Giorgio is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies in the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies of the University of Bath, UK.Emily Jeremiah is Senior Lecturer in German and Gender Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.Abigail Lee Six is Professor of Spanish at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

• CONTENTSAcknowledgementsForeword, Lisa BaraitserIntroduction: Motherhood in Literature and CultureGill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, and Abigail Lee SixPart I: Pregnancy and Birth1: Birth Fear and the Subjugation of Women’s Strength: Towards a Broader Conceptualization of Femininity in Birth Susannah Sweetman2: The Temporalities of Pregnancy: On Contingency, Loss, and Waiting Victoria Browne3: An (Un)Familiar Story: Exploring Ultrasound Poems by Contemporary British Women WritersEmily Blewitt4: Birthing Tales and Collective Memory in Recent French FictionValerie Worth-Stylianou5: Natality, Materiality, Maternity: The Sublime and the Grotesque in Contemporary SculptureChristine BattersbyPart II: Generation and Relation6: Erasing Mother, Seeking Father: Biotechnological Interventions, Anxieties over Motherhood, and Donor Offspring’s Narratives of SelfGabriele Griffin7: Mums or Dads? Lesbian Mothers in France Gill Rye8: The Kinning of the Transnationally Adopted Child in Contemporary NorwaySigne Howell9: Ties that Bind in Tanja Dückers’s Novel Himmelskörper: History, Memory, and Making Sense of Motherhood in Twenty-First-Century GermanyKatherine Stone10: Matrixial Creativity and the Wit(h)nessing of Trauma: Reconnecting Mothers and Daughters in Marosia Castaldi’s Novel Dentro le mie mani le tue: Tetralogia di NightwaterAdalgisa GiorgoPart III: Experience and Affect11: Publicizing Vulnerability: Motherhood and Affect in Joanna Rajkowska’s Post-2011 Art Justyna Wierzchowska12: Present and Obscured: Disabled Women as Mothers in Social PolicyHarriet Clarke13: Nuria C. Botey’s Short Story 'Viviendo con el tío Roy': Motherhood and Risk Assessment under Duress Abigail Lee Six14: Broken Nights, Shattered Selves: Maternal Ambivalence and the Ethics of Interruption in Sarah Moss’s Novel Night WakingEmily Jeremiah15: Uncertain Mothers: Maternal Ambivalence in Alina Marazzi’s Film Tutto parla di teClaudia Karagoz16: 'How to Say Hello to the Sea': Literary Perspectives on Medico-Legal Narratives of Maternal FilicideRuth CainPart IV: Reflections17: To Be or Not To Be (a Mother): Telling Academic and Personal Stories of Mothers and OthersGayle Letherby18: Last Will and Testament: Potatoes, Love, and PoetryAna Luisa AmaralList of ContributorsIndex