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 93
... sitting , just to make sure I had really gone , although it could not have been anyone else getting onto the truck . There was not a single person around in that vast yellowness . For the next few days she walked around the camp as ...
... sitting , just to make sure I had really gone , although it could not have been anyone else getting onto the truck . There was not a single person around in that vast yellowness . For the next few days she walked around the camp as ...
Page 165
... sitting next to her took over the task of reading it instead . With Cathy's heartrending sobs , we began to realize that she had written about her inadvertent but extremely agonizing discovery of the truth about her mother's death . In ...
... sitting next to her took over the task of reading it instead . With Cathy's heartrending sobs , we began to realize that she had written about her inadvertent but extremely agonizing discovery of the truth about her mother's death . In ...
Page 173
... sitting beside her jammed in traffic during rush hour , Aunt Emily cannot restrain herself from displaying to Naomi her pile of papers about the racist dispersal of their people . However , rather than consenting to and even praising ...
... sitting beside her jammed in traffic during rush hour , Aunt Emily cannot restrain herself from displaying to Naomi her pile of papers about the racist dispersal of their people . However , rather than consenting to and even praising ...
Contents
Feminism and Matrilinealism | 15 |
Feminism Matrilinealism and Psychoanalysis | 31 |
New Feminist Family Romances | 63 |
Copyright | |
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