Naming the Father - Softcover

Bueno, Eva Paulino; Caesar, Terry; Hummel, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0739100920 ISBN 13: 9780739100929

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2000

Synopsis

Naming the Father is a collection of essays on the subject of fatherhood: its enduring power, its secret ruses, its unsettling provocations. Despite the considerable critical attention devoted to motherhood in literature-and despite the late-twentieth-century focus on patriarchy-there is surprisingly no comparable collection on fatherhood. This volume was born of the conclusion that critics of modern and contemporary literature may comprehend the father too little for presuming to have comprehended patriarchy so much. Naming the Father begins with a series of nonfiction essays that attempts to locate the missing father in the individual experiences of three scholars at various stages of their careers. The following thematically grouped sections recover and discuss fatherhood in fields ranging from Caribbean fiction to African American drama and in the work of authors as diverse as Rebecca West, Anzia Yezierska, William Burroughs, and Stephen Wright, as well as Henry James and James Joyce. A variety of critical approaches, from biographical to deconstructive, activate and engage with the cultural, national, and global implications of fatherhood for the family and for the future of literary studies. Scholars and students of contemporary literature, cultural studies, and gender studies will find this book a fascinating and invaluable collection.

About this title

About the Author:

Eva Paulino Bueno is professor of literature at Mukogawa Women's University in Japan. Terry Caesar is senior professor of American literature at Mukogawa Women's University. William Hummel received his Ph.D. in American Literature from Arizona State University in 1999.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0739100920
• ISBN 13: 9780739100929
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352