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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Page 170
... Obasan is " the literal embodiment of silence " ; namely , the figure of Obasan represents and personifies the abstract and incomprehensible concept , silence . Therefore , in her quest for her mother's absence and silence , Naomi also ...
... Obasan is " the literal embodiment of silence " ; namely , the figure of Obasan represents and personifies the abstract and incomprehensible concept , silence . Therefore , in her quest for her mother's absence and silence , Naomi also ...
Page 171
... Obasan's silence also demonstrates certain significant characteristics of Japanese matrilineage . In an episode where Naomi describes a journey she takes with Obasan and Stephen , her brother , in a train , Obasan shows her motherly and ...
... Obasan's silence also demonstrates certain significant characteristics of Japanese matrilineage . In an episode where Naomi describes a journey she takes with Obasan and Stephen , her brother , in a train , Obasan shows her motherly and ...
Page 177
... Obasan ( 1981 ; reprint , New York : Anchor , 1994 ) . Hereafter , page numbers to this volume are cited parenthetically . References are to the reprint edition . 4 . 5 . Susan Rubin Suleiman , " Writing and Motherhood , " in The ( M ) ...
... Obasan ( 1981 ; reprint , New York : Anchor , 1994 ) . Hereafter , page numbers to this volume are cited parenthetically . References are to the reprint edition . 4 . 5 . Susan Rubin Suleiman , " Writing and Motherhood , " in The ( M ) ...
Contents
Feminism and Matrilinealism | 15 |
Feminism Matrilinealism and Psychoanalysis | 31 |
New Feminist Family Romances | 63 |
Copyright | |
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