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Writing the Modern Family

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Although a large body of work has emerged which addresses neoliberal representations of the family in other cultural forms (such as parenting advice programmes) little has been written specifically on the family and contemporary literature. This book examines the growing body of autobiographical and fictional writing on family and parenting issues in Anglo-American culture from the late 1990s to the present day. The book looks closely at six distinct genres which have arisen during this time frame: the misery memoir, the mum’s lit popular novel, the maternal confessional, ‘dads’ lit, the dysfunctional domestic novel and the family noir. Writing the Modern Family will examine the way these burgeoning areas of British and American writing respond to a neoliberal public discourse in which a ‘parenting deficit’ rather than economic and structural disadvantage, is responsible for increasing inequality in child welfare and achievement. In evaluating these forms and their relationship to neoliberal culture, the book will also consider the complex interrelationship between these genres.

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ISBN: 9781786605184
Publication date: 29th January 2021
Author: Roberta Garrett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 200 pages
Series: Radical Cultural Studies
Genres: Literary studies: from c 2000
Feminism and feminist theory
Social classes
Sociology: family and relationships