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 20
... Tell me and let me tell my hearers what I have heard from you who heard it from your mother and your grandmother , so that what is said may be guarded and unfailingly transmitted to the women of tomorrow , who will be our children and ...
... Tell me and let me tell my hearers what I have heard from you who heard it from your mother and your grandmother , so that what is said may be guarded and unfailingly transmitted to the women of tomorrow , who will be our children and ...
Page 21
... tell me " indicate the narrator's identity as a daughter who implores her mother to tell stories whereas the succeeding phrase " let me tell " divulges a maternal identity which serves as one of the " keepers and transmitters ” to both ...
... tell me " indicate the narrator's identity as a daughter who implores her mother to tell stories whereas the succeeding phrase " let me tell " divulges a maternal identity which serves as one of the " keepers and transmitters ” to both ...
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... telling each other stories " incessantly ( 15 ) . The stories they tell are age - old ; as a result , the villagers ... tell Ilana is a story about her mother . Strikingly , the power of their storytelling lies in their inseparable ...
... telling each other stories " incessantly ( 15 ) . The stories they tell are age - old ; as a result , the villagers ... tell Ilana is a story about her mother . Strikingly , the power of their storytelling lies in their inseparable ...
Contents
Feminism and Matrilinealism | 15 |
Feminism Matrilinealism and Psychoanalysis | 31 |
New Feminist Family Romances | 63 |
Copyright | |
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