Tillfällighetsmodrande och föräldralösa barn i amerikanska post-9/11-romaner

This article explores how ideas about national identity are staged and critiqued through representations of family relations in two American post-9/11 novels, focusing more specifically on mothering and the orphan child. Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days (2005) and Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s The Writ...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b7a2f18188274212872b441c0538ca8b2021-12-01T00:06:18ZTillfällighetsmodrande och föräldralösa barn i amerikanska post-9/11-romaner10.7146/kkf.v0i1-2.285002245-6937https://doaj.org/article/b7a2f18188274212872b441c0538ca8b2015-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/article/view/28500https://doaj.org/toc/2245-6937 This article explores how ideas about national identity are staged and critiqued through representations of family relations in two American post-9/11 novels, focusing more specifically on mothering and the orphan child. Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days (2005) and Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s The Writing on the Wall (2005) feature orphan children and women who take on the task of mothering them, if only temporarily, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. These orphans, as well as the women who mother them, serve to destabilize the “naturalness” of motherhood as well as the naturalization of the nuclear family. They are also interesting in that they talk back to a broadly mediatized nationalist rhetoric in the US that glorifies (dead) fathers and constructs mothers as suspect or unpatriotic if unwilling to support such glorification. Discussing meanings of orphanhood and motherhood from a critical perspective informed by feminist theory, family studies and American studies, this article proposes that fiction is a productive site for investigating nationally and culturally specific constructions of family, parenthood, and childhood.  Helena Wahlström HenrikssonThe Royal Danish Libraryarticlemotherhoodmotheringorphannationalism9/11Social SciencesHDAENNBSVKvinder, Køn & Forskning, Iss 1-2 (2015)
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Helena Wahlström Henriksson
Tillfällighetsmodrande och föräldralösa barn i amerikanska post-9/11-romaner
description This article explores how ideas about national identity are staged and critiqued through representations of family relations in two American post-9/11 novels, focusing more specifically on mothering and the orphan child. Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days (2005) and Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s The Writing on the Wall (2005) feature orphan children and women who take on the task of mothering them, if only temporarily, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. These orphans, as well as the women who mother them, serve to destabilize the “naturalness” of motherhood as well as the naturalization of the nuclear family. They are also interesting in that they talk back to a broadly mediatized nationalist rhetoric in the US that glorifies (dead) fathers and constructs mothers as suspect or unpatriotic if unwilling to support such glorification. Discussing meanings of orphanhood and motherhood from a critical perspective informed by feminist theory, family studies and American studies, this article proposes that fiction is a productive site for investigating nationally and culturally specific constructions of family, parenthood, and childhood. 
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title Tillfällighetsmodrande och föräldralösa barn i amerikanska post-9/11-romaner
title_short Tillfällighetsmodrande och föräldralösa barn i amerikanska post-9/11-romaner
title_full Tillfällighetsmodrande och föräldralösa barn i amerikanska post-9/11-romaner
title_fullStr Tillfällighetsmodrande och föräldralösa barn i amerikanska post-9/11-romaner
title_full_unstemmed Tillfällighetsmodrande och föräldralösa barn i amerikanska post-9/11-romaner
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