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 49
... mutual recognition , the necessity of recognizing as well as being recognized by the other " ( 23 , emphasis original ) . In Benjamin's opinion , this has been largely unexplored in major psychological theories . In contrast to the ...
... mutual recognition , the necessity of recognizing as well as being recognized by the other " ( 23 , emphasis original ) . In Benjamin's opinion , this has been largely unexplored in major psychological theories . In contrast to the ...
Page 51
... mutual recognition entails a disruption and its subsequent restoration of the tension . According to Benjamin , the ideal state of mutual recognition can only be achieved when it is also a site of " struggle and negotiation of conflict ...
... mutual recognition entails a disruption and its subsequent restoration of the tension . According to Benjamin , the ideal state of mutual recognition can only be achieved when it is also a site of " struggle and negotiation of conflict ...
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... recognition of their own subjectivities . In the process of telling stories , a sense of mutual recognition is also required and involved . In other words , the storytelling can only become meaningful when the two parties , the teller ...
... recognition of their own subjectivities . In the process of telling stories , a sense of mutual recognition is also required and involved . In other words , the storytelling can only become meaningful when the two parties , the teller ...
Contents
Feminism and Matrilinealism | 15 |
Feminism Matrilinealism and Psychoanalysis | 31 |
xi | 56 |
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