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 144
... night surrounded by bluefern they did something together appropriately and well " ( 84 ) . Before leaving , Amy Denver expresses to Sethe her concern about letting the newly born baby know who she is : " She's never gonna know who I am ...
... night surrounded by bluefern they did something together appropriately and well " ( 84 ) . Before leaving , Amy Denver expresses to Sethe her concern about letting the newly born baby know who she is : " She's never gonna know who I am ...
Page 158
... night , when I would feel that I was all locked up in the warm falling soot and could not find my way out , Ma Chess would come into my bed with me and stay until I was myself . . . . I would lie on my side , curled up like a little ...
... night , when I would feel that I was all locked up in the warm falling soot and could not find my way out , Ma Chess would come into my bed with me and stay until I was myself . . . . I would lie on my side , curled up like a little ...
Page 198
... night my grandmother made her beet soup . It was bright red , murky . Amorphous shreds of things settled to the bottom . I pushed the bowl away . Eat it , my grandmother said . It will make you strong . I looked at her , at the black ...
... night my grandmother made her beet soup . It was bright red , murky . Amorphous shreds of things settled to the bottom . I pushed the bowl away . Eat it , my grandmother said . It will make you strong . I looked at her , at the black ...
Contents
Feminism and Matrilinealism | 15 |
Feminism Matrilinealism and Psychoanalysis | 31 |
New Feminist Family Romances | 63 |
Copyright | |
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