RT Generic
T1 “It came, over and over, down to this: What made someone a mother?”: Motherhood, Race and Class in Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere and its TV Adaptation
A1 Toucedo Vila, Miriam
K1 Celeste Ng
K1 Little Fires Everywhere
K1 Liz Tigelaar
K1 Maternidade
AB As most mothers would agree, motherhood is unique, life-altering experience, which does not come with an instruction manual. Neither time, nor experience or pre-existing social conventions can determine what makes someone a person fit for the role of a mother. The aim of this dissertation is, precisely, to debunk the aforementioned factors that have been established to determine a woman’s fitness as a mother as depicted in Celeste Ng’s novel Little Fires Everywhere published in 2017 and its TV adaptation, the limited series of the same name developed by Liz Tigelaar, which premiered in the streaming service Hulu in 2018. This dissertation will study the different ways in which women experience motherhood in the novel and the TV series; some characters have become mothers in the traditional manner (such as the character of Helena Richardson) and others have resorted to more unconventional methods such as adoption (as illustrated in the McCullogh family) and surrogacy (depicted in Mia Warren). In addition, this analysis will bring into question what role do class circumstances as well as race considerations have in the development of the experience of motherhood in Ng’s novel and Tigerlaar’s TV series
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27478
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27478
LA eng
NO Traballo Fin de Grao en Lingua e Literatura Inglesas. Curso 2020-2021
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026