Family plots : the de-Oedipalization of popular culture /
Family Plots traces the fault lines of the Freudian family romance and holds that the "family plot" is very much alive in post-World War II American culture. It cuts across all genres, insinuating, criticizing, reinforcing, and reinventing itself in all forms of cultural production and con...
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| Idioma: | inglês |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©1995.
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| coleção: | Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt19892zg |
Sumário:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: Plotting the Family
- 2. Housebreaking Freud
- 3. The Third Sphere: Television's Romance with the Family
- 4. The Culture of "Momism": Evan S. Conncell's Mrs. Bridge
- 5. Rules of the Game: Anne Tyler's Searching for Caleb
- 6. Father Trouble: Jane Smiley's The Age of Grief
- 7. "A Possible Sharing": Ethnicizing Mother-Daughter Romance in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
- 8. Reconstructing Kin: Toni Morrison's Beloved
- 9. "Family" Romance (Or, How to Recognize a Queer Text When You Meet One)
- 10. The Lesbian Dick: Policing the Family in Internal Affairs
- 11 . Home Viewing
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index