Disruptive Speech: A Discursive Analysis of Single Mother Memoirs and the Challenge to Compulsory Heterosexuality
Abstract
This article examines the discursive construction of single motherhood in contemporary creative non-fiction. Specifically, I analyze the way single motherhood is imagined in Robin Silbergleid’s <em>Texas Girl</em>, Casey Goldberg, Beth Jones, and Pamela Ferdinand’s <em>Three Wishes</em>, and Andrea Askowitz’s <em>My Miserable Lonely Lesbian Pregnancy</em>. My analysis focuses particularly on the ways that these authors use the discourse of maternity to comment on their experience of compulsory heterosexuality.
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