The representation of gueer mothering in Maggie Nelson’s autofiction The Argonauts

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2020

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Tartu Ülikool

Abstract

This MA thesis analyzes the representation of motherhood in the autofiction genre in the face of social changes in the understanding and structure of a family. Its main research aim is to find out to what extent Maggie Nelson’s autofiction The Argonauts represents queer mothering experience.

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autofiktsioon, kahehäälne diskursus, queer mothering

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