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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... woman's voice is invariably connected with the multiple voices in her female descent line . Be it a distinct form of communication , this matrilineal concatenation formulates and constitutes collectivity , plurality , and complexity ...
... woman's voice is invariably connected with the multiple voices in her female descent line . Be it a distinct form of communication , this matrilineal concatenation formulates and constitutes collectivity , plurality , and complexity ...
Page 154
... woman's " island home and its unique culture as well as the body of tropes , talismans and female bonding that is a woman's heritage through her own and other mothers . " ' 1o Therefore , forming close bonding with both her mother and ...
... woman's " island home and its unique culture as well as the body of tropes , talismans and female bonding that is a woman's heritage through her own and other mothers . " ' 1o Therefore , forming close bonding with both her mother and ...
Page 171
... woman . As Naomi hesitates and then declines because she is not accustomed to expressing herself in a caring role , Obasan goes forward instead , showing in front of Naomi how to do so ( 134 ) . Later , assisted by an old woman on the ...
... woman . As Naomi hesitates and then declines because she is not accustomed to expressing herself in a caring role , Obasan goes forward instead , showing in front of Naomi how to do so ( 134 ) . Later , assisted by an old woman on the ...
Contents
Feminism and Matrilinealism | 15 |
Feminism Matrilinealism and Psychoanalysis | 31 |
xi | 56 |
Copyright | |
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