Womb Fantasies: Subjective Architectures in Postmodern Literature, Cinema, and Art

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Frontispiece Eero Saarinen’s Womb Chair as Fallout Shelter 3 Part One: Geographies Chapter 1 Agoraphobia: Marguerite Duras’s Hiroshima mon amour and The Vice-Consul 11 Chapter 2 Heterotopia: Alexander Kluge’s Yesterday Girl and The Blind Director 37 Part Two: Boundaries Chapter 3 Matricide: Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl 57 Chapter 4 Womb Envy: Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, A Woman Is a Woman, and Hail Mary 77 End Piece The Future Is Here, and It’s Dead: Damien Hirst’s Virgin Mother 97 Notes 107 Works Cited 115 Index 125 ...