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Dass auch Männer Kinder gebären können, ist ein uralter Traum. Zwischen 1890 und 1933 wurden männliche Gebärphantasien zu einem in Literatur, Kunst und Film geradezu obsessiv präsentierten Phänomen. Heute ist aus der Phantasie Realität geworden. Dieser Aufstieg vom Imaginären der 'Kunstgeburten' zum 'Realen' einer neuen Materialität öffnet einen ganz neuen, vollständig unbekannten Horizont, von dem Filme wie 'Blade Runner' oder 'Matrix' nur einen Vorschein geben. Zu Recht steht Filippo Tommaso Marinettis 'afrikanischer' Roman 'Mafarka der Futurist' im Dreh- und Angelpunkt der Argumentation.

Male pregnancy. --- Childbirth in literature. --- Human reproduction in literature.

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Natalität ist, nach Hannah Arendt, der »Neubeginn, der mit jeder Geburt in die Welt kommt«. Während Natalität im philosophischen Diskurs oft im Schatten der Fragen nach Sterblichkeit, Tod und Ende stand, beanspruchten die Künste sie seit Langem metaphorisch für Figuren des Anfangs. Neben Zeugung und Empfängnis markieren Mutter-, Vater- und vor allem Schwangerschaft sowie Geburt ein diskursives Feld ästhetischer Hervorbringungen und Neuanfänge. Der vorliegende Band untersucht Entwicklungen und Brüche in der künstlerischen Natalitätsmetaphorik der Moderne. Er fragt nach den Einsätzen der Geburtsmetapher ebenso wie nach der Reprojektion des maskulin usurpierten Geburtskonzepts auf die Position der künstlerisch kreativen Frau. Schließlich untersucht er Vorstellungen nicht-geschlechtlicher Kreation, welche die Natalität aus der Biosphäre und Dominanz der Familienordnung herauslösen.

Birth (Philosophy) in literature --- Childbirth in literature --- Fertility, Human, in art --- Literature --- History and criticism

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Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan is a wide-ranging account of how women writers have made sense (and nonsense) of pregnancy in postwar Japan. While earlier authors such as Yosano Akiko had addressed the pain and emotional complexities of childbearing in their poetry and prose, the topic quickly moved into the literary shadows when motherhood became enshrined as a duty to state and sovereign in the 1930s and '40s. This reproductive imperative endured after World War II, spurred by a need to create a new generation of citizens and consumers for a new, peacetime nation. It was only in the 1960s, in the context of a flowering of feminist thought and activism, that more critical and nuanced appraisals of pregnancy and motherhood began to appear.In her fascinating study, Amanda C. Seaman analyzes the literary manifestations of this new critical approach, in the process introducing readers to a body of work notable for the wide range of genres employed by its authors (including horror and fantasy, short stories, novels, memoir, and manga), the many political, personal, and social concerns informing it, and the diverse creative approaches contained therein. This "pregnancy literature," Seaman argues, serves as an important yet rarely considered forum for exploring and debating not only the particular experiences of the pregnant mother-to-be, but the broader concerns of Japanese women about their bodies, their families, their life choices, and the meaning of motherhood for individuals and for Japanese society. It will be of interest to scholars of modern Japanese literature and women's history, as well as those concerned with gender studies, feminism, and popular culture in Japan and beyond.

Childbirth in literature. --- Pregnancy in literature. --- Japanese literature --- History and criticism. --- Women authors

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The novel since the nineteenth century has displayed a thorny ambivalence toward the question of having children. In its representation of human vitality it can seem to promote the giving of life, but again and again it betrays a nagging doubt about the moral implications of procreation. The Novel and the Problem of New Life identifies this tension as a defining quality of the modern British and European novel. Beginning with the procreative-skeptical writings of Flaubert, Butler, and Hardy, then turning to the high modernist work of Lawrence, Woolf, and Huxley, and culminating in the postwar fiction of Lessing and others, this book chronicles the history of the novel as it came to accommodate greater misgivings about the morality of reproduction. This is the first study to examine in literature a problem that has long troubled philosophers, environmental thinkers, and so many people in everyday life.

European fiction --- Childbirth in literature. --- Children in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Childhood in literature --- Children in poetry --- English fiction --- Population in literature. --- History and criticism

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In Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic, Julie Kipp examines Romantic writers' treatments of motherhood and maternal bodies in the context of the legal, medical, educational and socioeconomic debates about motherhood so popular during the period. She argues that these discussions turned the physical processes associated with mothering into matters of national importance. The privately shared space signified by the womb or the maternal breast were made public by the widespread interest in the workings of the maternal body. These private spaces evidenced for writers of the period the radical exposure of mother and child to one another - for good or ill. Kipp's primary concern is to underline the ways that writers used representations of mother-child bonds as ways of naturalizing, endorsing and critiquing Enlightenment constructions of interpersonal and intercultural relations. This fascinating literary and cultural study will appeal to all scholars of Romanticism.

English literature --- Mother and child in literature. --- Romanticism --- Human body in literature. --- Motherhood in literature. --- Childbirth in literature. --- Mothers in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature