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Metaphors of Motherhood in Marina Warner’s Fiction and Short Fiction Her Womb Worn Thin

This volume oversees the fluctuating, but close relationship of motherhood studies, maternal theory, and feminism in Marina Warner’s fiction and short stories. Originating in Chantal Zabus’ analysis of the controversial Sycorax and Ariel in Indigo or, Mapping the Waters, the phrase “sisterly continuum” has inspired this book’s focus on a parallel “motherly continuum” linking and animating the myriad female characters of the most prolific twentieth- and twenty- first- century British cultural historian and novelist. By tracing and analyzing the wide variety of fictional mothers and their maternal practices through the lens of various feminist and maternal theories, this book attempts to deconstruct the false binary oppositions of “good” versus “bad” mother, “biological/ birth” versus foster

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