Writing the Modern Family

Auteur

Roberta Garrett is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK

Texte du rabat

This book examines the growing body of autobiographical and fictional writing on family and parenting issues in Anglo-American culture from the late 1990s to the present day.

Contenu

Introduction: Literature and the Politicisation of Parenting / 1. Abuse and Enchantment: Misery lit and return of the evil (step)mother / 2. Novels and Children: 'Mum's lit' and the Public Mother as Author / 3. 'I was only being honest': Truth, Myth and Resistance in Contemporary Maternal Memoirs / 4. Fathers Know Best: 'Dads' lit' and the Childcare Wars of the mid 2000s / 5. Angels and Demons: Attachment Parenting and the Dysfunctional Domestic novel / 6. The Neoliberal Fallen Woman