Full Description
This book is a comprehensive study of some ways of treating the subject that demonstrate new and unusual perspectives, and provides a different approach to the popularly-held views of mothers-in-law; and that further address these works as popular culture; and as texts in their own right from within the framework of literary theory; and as works that demonstrate the ability to reach and connect with, and satisfy, both the general reader, the student, and the scholar, from all levels and walks of life.
Contents
Foreword by Josephine May
Preface by Jo Parnell
Part 1: The Mothers-in-Law of the Future
A Cultural Appraisal of the Significance of the Role of the Mother-in-Law Among the Yoruba People of NigeriaCecilia Alero Titilayo Saibu
Mother-in-Law Soap Opera: Redefining the Mother-in-Law, Redesigning the Kenyan NationWafula David Yenjela
Oppressor or Oppressed: The M(other) - in-Law in Nigerian Women's LiteratureShalini Nadaswaran
Stereotyped Representations of the Black Mother-In-Law in Reality Television Shows: A Critical AnalysisMarquita Gammage
Part II: Foundational Mothers-in-Law
The Mother-in-Law in Latin Literature and Roman SocietyJane Bellemore and Terry Ryan
Exclusive Intimacies: Creating Mothers-in-Law in Japanese Literature and FilmMiglena (Maggie) Ivanova
Ogresses, Queens and Wicked Fairies: Fairy-tale Mothers-in-Law from Charles Perrault to Shrek and Once Upon a TimeLydia Brugué Botia and Auba Llompart Pons
Cold Springs: Cinematic Portraits of Sara RooseveltAndrew Howe
Part III: Entertaining Mothers-in-Law
The Evil Dame in British Horror Film: Domestic Nightmare and Change of Times of in Fanatic and PersecutionFernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, and Leonardo Acosta Lando and Diego Foronda
"The Worst Person I Know": Representations of the Mother-in-Law in British Popular EntertainmentMartina Lipton
Dorothy Cannell's How to Murder your Mother-in-Law: Women, Sisterhood and FeminismZoly Rakotoniera
Afterword by Hugh Craig
