- Title
- Representations of the mother-in-law in literature, film, drama, and television
- Creator
- Parnell (editor), Jo
- Relation
- https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498569064/Representations-of-the-Mother-in-Law-in-Literature-Film-Drama-and-Television
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Resource Type
- book
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Edited by Jo Parnell this book is a comprehensive study on the treatment of mothers-in-law that demonstrates new and unusual perspectives and provides a different approach to the popularly held views of the subject. This book further address these representations as popular culture, as texts in their own right from within the framework of literary theory; and as works that demonstrate the ability to reach, connect with, and satisfy the general reader, the student, and the scholar, from all levels and walks of life. 1) A cultural appraisal of the significance of the role of the mother-in-law among the Yoruba People of Nigeria (Alero & Saibu); 2) Mother-in-law soap opera: Redefining the mother-in-law, redesigning the Kenyan nation (Yenjela); 3) Oppressor or oppressed: the m(other) – in-law in Nigerian women’s literature (Nadaswaran); 4) Stereotyped representations of the black mother-in-law in reality television shows: A critical analysis (Gammage); 5) Mothers-in-law in Latin literature and Roman society (Bellmore & Ryan); 6) Exclusive intimacies: creating mothers-in-law in Japanese literature and film (Ivanova); 7) Ogresses, queens and wicked fairies: Fairy-tale mothers-in-law from Charles Perrault to Shrek and Once Upon a Time (Pons & Botia); 8) Cold springs: cinematic portraits of Sara Roosevelt (Howe); 9) The evil dame in British horror film: domestic nightmare and change of times of in Fanatic and Persecution (Berns, Lando & Foronda); 10) “The worst person I know”: representations of the mother-in-law in British popular entertainment (Lipton); and 11) Dorothy Cannell’s How to murder your mother-in-law: women, sisterhood and feminism (Rakotoniera); Afterword by Hugh Craig
- Subject
- mothers; culture; stereotypes; essays
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1403986
- Identifier
- uon:35249
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781498569064
- Language
- eng
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