Mother, She Wrote: Matrilineal Narratives in Contemporary Women's WritingIn this enjoyable and insightful book, Yi-Lin Yu takes the heated and ongoing feminist debate over motherhood and maternal subjectivity onto a new plane - in search of a new synthesis. With its specific focus on the three-tiered matrilineal narratives, Mother, She Wrote is distinguished by its complex and innovative deployment of psychoanalytic subject-relations theories, and a meticulous and detailed discussion of various literary texts, which calls forth a powerful reformulation of these narratives. One of the main strengths of this book is this simultaneous and tactful command of theory and literary practice. Apart from advocating the burgeoning development of women's writing of matrilineal narratives, the author also sheds new light on further research in the area of feminist motherhood and mothering. |
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Chapter 7 Margaret Drabble's The Peppered Moth argaret Drabble's The Peppered Moth , ' one of the recently published novels with matrilineal narratives , is imbued with IV a more pervasively scientific enquiry into the matrilineal ...
Chapter 7 Margaret Drabble's The Peppered Moth argaret Drabble's The Peppered Moth , ' one of the recently published novels with matrilineal narratives , is imbued with IV a more pervasively scientific enquiry into the matrilineal ...
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Mackenzie's accounts of these anecdotes a open an avenue for delving into Drabble's latest novel , The Peppered Moth , and the agonized and unresolved mother - daughter relationship the novel is intended to unfold .
Mackenzie's accounts of these anecdotes a open an avenue for delving into Drabble's latest novel , The Peppered Moth , and the agonized and unresolved mother - daughter relationship the novel is intended to unfold .
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... 196–201 , 203 , 209 Schapiro , Barbara Ann , 47 , 147 , 149n9 Sebastian ( The Peppered Moth ) , 106 Second - Wave ... n42 semi - auto / biographical novel in The Peppered Moth ( Drabble ) , 102 semiotic / the maternal , 42—3 , 45–6 ...
... 196–201 , 203 , 209 Schapiro , Barbara Ann , 47 , 147 , 149n9 Sebastian ( The Peppered Moth ) , 106 Second - Wave ... n42 semi - auto / biographical novel in The Peppered Moth ( Drabble ) , 102 semiotic / the maternal , 42—3 , 45–6 ...
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Feminism Matrilinealism and Psychoanalysis | 31 |
61 | 39 |
77 | 58 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Mother, She Wrote: Matrilineal Narratives in Contemporary Women's Writing G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | Yi-Lin Yu |
| Publisher | P. Lang, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 28, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0820469009, 9780820469003 |
| Length | 237 pages |
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