Nathalie Segeral

Cette étude examine le processus de mythification de la Shoah et analyse la manière dont il s’est opéré en trois étapes : d’abord, le glissement sémantique du nom d’Auschwitz, devenu métonymie de la violence génocidaire ; puis, le recours à la mythologie grecque, notamment au mythe d’Orphée, chez Charlotte Delbo et d’autres survivant.e.s pour inscrire leur récit dans une intertextualité anhistorique ; enfin, la mythification de la Shoah dans les récits apocalyptiques de deux écrivaines des deuxième et troisième générations respectivement, Cécile Wajsbrot et Sarah Chiche. Ainsi, il apparaît que le mythe de la Shoah remplit une fonction prophétique en facilitant l’avènement de la mémoire anticipatoire tout en permettant de dépasser les discours victimaires à l’œuvre dans les récits de l’extrême contemporain, dans l’optique d’élaboration de nouvelles structures narratives et d’expérimentation de nouvelles formes d’écriture de soi afin de transcender les frontières génériques. Ce mythe permet aussi l’inscription de la problématique du genre et du corps dans le contexte génocidaire de déshumanisation et désincarnation.

Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture repositions motherhood studies through the lens of trauma theory by exploring new challenges surrounding conception, pregnancy, and postpartum experiences. Chapters investigate nine case studies of motherhood trauma and recovery in literature and culture from the last twenty years by exploring their emotional consequences through the lens of trauma, resilience, and “working through” theories. Contributions engage with a transnational corpus drawn from the five continents and span topics as rarely discussed as pregnancy denial, surrogacy, voluntary or involuntary childlessness, racism and motherhood, carceral mothering practices, surrogacy, IVF, artificial wombs, and mothering through war, genocide, and migration. Accompanied by an online creative supplement, this volume deals with silenced aspects of embodied motherhood while enhancing a better understanding of the cathartic effects of storytelling.

Mothering during the pandemic has crystallized the preexisting gender gap in academia. Whereas previous studies have shown that women with children are significantly less likely to achieve full professorship than their childless or male peers, recent studies have already found evidence of a gender gap in productivity during the pandemic and several articles have been published on this topic by academic mothers struggling with having to juggle childcare, homeschooling, and academic duties from home. However, these papers and studies focus on partnered academic mothers, further exacerbating the invisibility of single mothers. Using my own experience as a single mother to five-year-old twin boys who left an American university for an Australian one during the pandemic, along with experiential accounts by other single academic mothers from the Facebook group “Single Parents in Academia,” this chapter highlights the specific challenges faced by single mothers during COVID-19 in a transnational context, both in and outside of academia. It also suggests avenues for solutions and improved policies to mitigate the single motherhood double penalty through a comparison of the lockdown regulations across three countries (France, the United States, and Australia). Its goal is to give visibility to single mothering, which has been further marginalized by the pandemic and its accompanying media discourse and emergency measures.

While saving women and children first is standard practice at times of historical upheaval, during the Holocaust women and children were often killed first, and pregnant mothers and small children were sent to the gas chambers upon arrival at the Nazi camps. This fundamental reversal of traditional values has not yet been granted enough attention, which is why this study examines two narratives that tell the survivor’s story through the lens of motherhood and the woman’s body. Valentine Goby’s Kinderzimmer (2013) draws on archives and survivors’ testimonies about a “children’s room” located in Ravensbrück between September 1944 and March 1945. Goby’s narrator is modelled on Madeleine Roubenne, a French survivor, yet, interestingly, Goby rewrites Roubenne’s story into a more “successful” version of motherhood. The short story “Little Red Bird” (2004), written in Yiddish by Jewish-Canadian author, Chava Rosenfarb, who is a Holocaust survivor herself, alludes to the Little Red Riding Hood and follows an Auschwitz survivor obsessed by her inability to bear children, which she attributes to being haunted by the ghost of her five-year-old daughter killed in Auschwitz. The story stages the destructiveness of PTSD through Manya’s obsession with motherhood that results in her fantasy of stealing a baby from a maternity ward and her failure to assist her dying husband. Both narratives thus testify to the intrinsically gendered character of Holocaust experience and problematize gender in the context of Holocaust through examinations of (non-)motherhood and the female body. While for Rosenfarb’s narrator, surviving means to counter the effects of Nazi policies that specifically targeted women for their reproductive capacities, for Goby’s narrator foster motherhood enables survival. Both texts are thus read here in the light of the complicated re-gendering and cathartic/pathological aspects of motherhood brought about by Holocaust trauma.

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Neposredno po objavljivanju dela Margerit Diras Zanesenost Lole V. Stajn 1964. godine, Žak Lakan piše, u članku pod nazivom'Omaž Margerit Diras, za Zanesenost Lole V. Stajn':'(..) jedina prednost koju psihoanalitičar ima pravo da preuzme u odnosu na svoju ...

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This roundtable welcomes contributions from academic mothers at all stages of their careers, as well as from motherhood scholars and from non-mothers who have resolved to remain childless due to the lack of appropriate academic support. Transnational contributions exploring differences with other academic cultures are also welcome. Our purpose will be to share personal stories and experiences and discuss avenues for improvement. We hope to continue a productive conversation started at NeMLA 2019 about mothers in academia.

This anthology of interdisciplinary work links to sociology, anthropology, psychology, demography, religion, language, literature, popular media, medicine and child and family studies. Are women that choose to be childfree always narcissistic, self-obsessed, and lonely? Or can they be free, mobile, and successful? Do all women who choose to be childfree do it in the same way or have the same motivation? What is the role of age, partnership status, trauma or poverty in this decision? Using techniques such as literature review, ethnographic interviews, autoethnography, and textual analysis and reframing, these sixteen authors from around the globe unpack largely pronatalist, racist, sexist and heteronormative views and assumptions about childfree women.