Briallen Hopper

Demon Children & Tiger Mothers: A History of Dystopic Domestic Memoir

Date: Monday, February 20, 2012 - 5:30pm
Location: William L. Harkness Hall (WLH), Room 309, 100 Wall Street

Briallen Hopper (Yale Divinity School)  Demon Children & Tiger Mothers:  A History of Dystopic Domestic Memoir. This paper explores the anti-sentimental maternal voice from Shirley Jackson to Amy Chua, tracing the evolution of the self-avowed "bad mother" in American popular memoir and paying special attention to best-selling Gothic and Orientalist versions of monstrous maternity.