Playing house
Subtitle: motherhood, intimacy, and domestic spaces in Julia Franck's fiction
By: Alexandra Merley Hill
Series: Women in German literature -- 15
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783034307673
Subjects: Motherhood in literature; Intimacy (Psychology) in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Domestic space in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Freuleinwunder and feminism; title: Roles: theorizing performativity and performance; title: Lovers: the search for and failure of intimacy in Berlin literature; title: Daughters: psychoanalytic theory, domestic space, and maternal desire; title: Mothers: psychoanalytic models, the bad mother, and maternal drag; title: Fathers and sons: absent fathers, sisters, and siblings, and looking for home.