{"product_id":"intergenerational-conflict-in-ethnic-literature-mothers-from-a-different-world-von-michael-burger","title":"Intergenerational Conflict in Ethnic Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eExamination Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,5, University of Augsburg (Neue Englische Literaturen und Kulturwissenschaft), course: New English Literatures, language: English, abstract: The relationship between a mother and her children has been a prominent topic in literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eever since the genre of written fiction has become popular in the past. Mother figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom Jocasta in the ancient Greek tragedy King Oedipus and Gertrude in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShakespeare classic Hamlet to Norma Bates in the 20th century suspense novel Psycho,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto name but a few, have thrilled the audience as well as given critics a diverse subject to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edeal with. One reason for this ongoing fascination over centuries of literary production\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emay lie in the extraordinarily complex relationship structure which can be developed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebetween a mere dyad of people who happen to be mother and child. Yet, another reason\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor the perpetual re-invention of the issue can be found in its apparent comprehensibility:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eevery human being has a biological mother and gets socialized by at least one focal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eperson of reference which enables them to relate to the fictional stories easily. The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunique quality of mothers in this process ¿ as plain as it sounds ¿ still is their ability to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebear children, and by this act to establish an irreplaceable link to another human being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the twentieth century, the socio-anthropological development has created a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emyriad of new possibilities and demographic changes that consequently were to find\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etheir way into literature and even have created new genres. Due to ¿significant shifts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[¿] in attitudes towards sexuality¿ (Allan 10), technological advance, and demographic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echanges, a whole new range of potential life-styles has evolved since the end of World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWar II. This involved deconstruction of a traditional middle-class myth, namely the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebreaking up of the nuclear family¿s near-monopoly position has ultimately led to an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e¿increasing diversity occurring in family and household patterns¿ (Allan 10). Consequently,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eissues like working mothers, single-parent families, step-families, or same-sex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecouples adopting children have also enriched literary production of the past fifty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditionally to this, the increase of migration to the western industrialized societies has\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaused a development of a wider ethnic diversity than before the turn of the century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEspecially in the United States of America this influx of new potential authors became\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe cornerstone of a prolific process which has been producing works apart from American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emainstream literature and still continues to do so.[...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640952939\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMothers from a Different World\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640952939","offer_id":39427482124381,"sku":"9783640952939","price":42.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/5b99d706-bc17-4806-aa37-ff0aa92d946d.jpg?v=1777782721","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/intergenerational-conflict-in-ethnic-literature-mothers-from-a-different-world-von-michael-burger","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}