Translating Maternal Violence : The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filic...

by A. Castellini

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Translating Maternal Violence : The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan, Hardcover by Castellini, Alessandro, ISBN 1137538813, ISBN-13 9781137538819, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book provides the first full-length, English-language investigation of the multiple and often contradictory ways in which mothers who kill their children were portrayed in 1970s Japan. It offers a snapshot of a historical and social moment when motherhood was being renegotiated, and maternal violence was disrupting norms of acceptable maternal behaviour. Drawing on a wide range of original archival materials, it explores three discursive sites where the image of the murderous mother assumed a distinctive visibility: media coverage of cases of maternal filicide; the rhetoric of a newly emerging women’s liberation movement known as uman ribu; and fictional works by the Japanese writer Takahashi Takako. Using translation as a theoretical tool to decentre the West as the origin of (feminist) theorizations of the maternal, it enables a transnational dialogue for imagining mothers' potential for violence. This thought-provoking work will appeal to scholars of feminist theory, cultural studies and Japanese studies.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The Limited
• Year: 2017
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781137538819
• Condition: Fine

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