The mother in the age of mechanical reproduction
Subtitle: psychoanalysis, photography, deconstruction
By: Elissa Marder
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780823240555; 9780823240562
Subjects: Technology in literature; Motherhood in literature; Human body in literature; Human reproduction in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: The sex of death and the maternal crypt; title: Mourning, magic, and telepathy; title: The sexual animal and the primal scene of birth; title: Back of beyond: anxiety and the birth of the future; title: On psycho-photography: shame and the Abu Ghraib; title: Avital Ronell's body politics; title: Blade Runner's moving still; title: Nothing to say: fragments on the mother in the age of mechanical reproduction; title: Darkroom readings: scenes of maternal photography; title: The mother tongue in Phèdre and Frankenstein; title: Birthmarks (given names); title: Bit: mourning remains in Derrida and Cixous.