Record Nr.

UNINA9910252726503321

Autore

Castellini Alessandro

Titolo

Translating Maternal Violence [[electronic resource] ] : The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan / / by Alessandro Castellini

Pubbl/distr/stampa


London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

1-137-53882-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 273 p. 3 illus.)

Collana

Thinking Gender in Transnational Times

Disciplina

359.03

Soggetti

Sociology

Crime—Sociological aspects

Feminist theory

Ethnology—Asia

Literature—Translations

Oriental literature

Gender Studies

Crime and Society

Feminism

Asian Culture

Translation Studies

Asian Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Filicide in the media: news coverage of mothers who kill in 1970s Japan -- Chapter 2. The Women’s Liberation Movement in 1970s Japan -- Chapter 3. Contested meanings: mothers who kill and the rhetoric of ūman ribu -- Chapter 4. Filicide and maternal animosity in Takahashi Takako’s early fiction -- Conclusion. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides the first full-length, English-language investigation of the multiple and often contradictory ways in which mothers who kill their children were portrayed in 1970s Japan. It offers a snapshot of a historical and social moment when motherhood was being

renegotiated, and maternal violence was disrupting norms of acceptable maternal behaviour. Drawing on a wide range of original archival materials, it explores three discursive sites where the image of the murderous mother assumed a distinctive visibility: media coverage of cases of maternal filicide; the rhetoric of a newly emerging women’s liberation movement known as ūman ribu; and fictional works by the Japanese writer Takahashi Takako. Using translation as a theoretical tool to decentre the West as the origin of (feminist) theorizations of the maternal, it enables a transnational dialogue for imagining mothers' potential for violence. This thought-provoking work will appeal to scholars of feminist theory, cultural studies and Japanese studies.