
Pregnancy and childbirth are no longer relegated to the margins of intellectual inquiry in Mary Ruth Marotte s Captive Bodies: American Women Writers Redefine Pregnancy and Childbirth, as she explores how pregnancy narratives continue to proliferate, sometimes in unexpected mediums. Marotte s book and her methodology provide us a tool through which to study these experiences as ones that are philo...
Paperback: 146 pages
Publisher: Demeter Press (October 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1550149997
ISBN-13: 978-1550149999
Package Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.4 inches
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charged and critically relevant. While classifying the pregnant condition as a state of captivity might elicit negative connotations, Marotte underscores how American women writers have envisioned the condition of captivity as one in which the pregnant woman can realize, perhaps even find power in, a challenging and disturbing loss of subjectivity. In Captive Bodies, Marotte explores the use of the term captive, locating in it a multivalent meaning. To be captive in pregnancy is to reach a kind of sublime, a rapturous experience that has both negative and positive effects on the experiencing subject. In working with both primary and theoretical texts, Marotte reveals a genre of pregnancy literature that will validate this subject as one worthy of continued intellectual study and critical attention.