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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... pre - Oedipal phase daughters have with their mothers . For now , suffice it to say that as a girl tends to have a longer pre - Oedipal phase , because of her strong identification with the mother , she is likely to be the object of ...
... pre - Oedipal phase daughters have with their mothers . For now , suffice it to say that as a girl tends to have a longer pre - Oedipal phase , because of her strong identification with the mother , she is likely to be the object of ...
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... pre - Oedipal phase . The pre - Oedipal phase is regarded as fundamental to the intricacies and complexities of the mother - daughter relationship because it is the root of the specificity of female development and of the way the ...
... pre - Oedipal phase . The pre - Oedipal phase is regarded as fundamental to the intricacies and complexities of the mother - daughter relationship because it is the root of the specificity of female development and of the way the ...
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... pre - Oedipal connection with the child . In this piece of writing , the mother conjures up various kinds of feelings such as pain , pleasure , guilt , blame , and fear through the sensuality of her body . The writing is interpreted by ...
... pre - Oedipal connection with the child . In this piece of writing , the mother conjures up various kinds of feelings such as pain , pleasure , guilt , blame , and fear through the sensuality of her body . The writing is interpreted by ...
Contents
Feminism and Matrilinealism | 15 |
Feminism Matrilinealism and Psychoanalysis | 31 |
xi | 56 |
Copyright | |
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