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 196
... immigrant in America . Sometimes , the image of the three women is transposed to stand for Ilana and her two female descendants , her daughter and granddaughter , Sashie and Mara . These three women represent the reincarnation of the ...
... immigrant in America . Sometimes , the image of the three women is transposed to stand for Ilana and her two female descendants , her daughter and granddaughter , Sashie and Mara . These three women represent the reincarnation of the ...
Page 205
... immigrant experiences in America ( although in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John , the background is set in one of the Caribbean islands and the mother- daughter relation becomes only tense and strained when the daughter reaches puberty ) ...
... immigrant experiences in America ( although in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John , the background is set in one of the Caribbean islands and the mother- daughter relation becomes only tense and strained when the daughter reaches puberty ) ...
Page 209
... immigrant mothers and as a source of culture and language barriers for the Americanized immigrant daughters . On the other hand , it is also viewed as provision of empowerment and strength for the mother - daughter survival in their ...
... immigrant mothers and as a source of culture and language barriers for the Americanized immigrant daughters . On the other hand , it is also viewed as provision of empowerment and strength for the mother - daughter survival in their ...
Contents
Feminism and Matrilinealism | 15 |
Feminism Matrilinealism and Psychoanalysis | 31 |
xi | 56 |
Copyright | |
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