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Title: Baby, The
Author: DARRIEUSSECQ MARIE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 02/04/2019
Imprint: TEXT PUBLISHERS
Price: $28.00
Publishing status: Active
The Baby is a mother?s project and a writer?s project-how to reconcile these two demanding roles? What is a baby? And why are there so few of them in literature? Through notes taken in the months after her first child was born, Darrieussecq, in her characteristically ingenious style, makes observations that will bring smiles and grimaces of recognition, and raise important questions. Along with the banal drudgery of childcare, there is the euphoria, the obsession, the terror and the visceral focus on the body. Arguing with ‘Saint de Beauvoir?, Darrieussecq examines how women as mothers are targeted from all angles. How, she asks, can a woman be more and other than a mother?
ISBN: 9781911231264
Pages: 208
Edition: 01