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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Tác giả chính: Heller, Dana A. (Dana Alice), 1959- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press ©1995.
Loạt:Feminist cultural studies, the media, and political culture.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt19892zg
Mục lục:
  • 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