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 56
... narration of a life or a self can never be confined to a single , isolated subjecthood . Others are an integral part of consciousness , events and the production of a narrative . Or , put more abstractly , the narration of a self cannot ...
... narration of a life or a self can never be confined to a single , isolated subjecthood . Others are an integral part of consciousness , events and the production of a narrative . Or , put more abstractly , the narration of a self cannot ...
Page 79
... narrations , as a re - creation of a matrilineal past , are cast in the forms of dreams and memories . The ... narration of her childhood memory there , Anna is delighted to trace the miraculous signs of " surprise , " " joy ...
... narrations , as a re - creation of a matrilineal past , are cast in the forms of dreams and memories . The ... narration of her childhood memory there , Anna is delighted to trace the miraculous signs of " surprise , " " joy ...
Page 118
... narrations in the introduction , interlude , and epilogue oscillate between the two narratives of Hanna and ... narration of her own childhood experiences and also through the mother's dreams ( trajectory 1 ) . Then , the book ...
... narrations in the introduction , interlude , and epilogue oscillate between the two narratives of Hanna and ... narration of her own childhood experiences and also through the mother's dreams ( trajectory 1 ) . Then , the book ...
Contents
Feminism and Matrilinealism | 15 |
Feminism Matrilinealism and Psychoanalysis | 31 |
xi | 56 |
Copyright | |
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