Motherhood and Creativity in Contemporary Self-Life Writing

It discusses the issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine their literary vocation with their duties to their children and it highlights the role of cultural myths in our representations of what being an author and a mother entails.

Auteur

Alice Braun is a senior lecturer at the Université de Paris Nanterre in France. She has been researching self-life writing by women and is the author of several articles on Janet Frame, Rachel Cusk, Sylvia Plath, and Doris Lessing. Lately, she has been working on the representation of motherhood in literary texts, and particularly childbirth.