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WRITING MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS
RENEGOTIATING THE MOTHER IN WESTERN EUROPEAN NARRATIVES BY WOMEN |
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Adalgisa Giorgio (Editor) |
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1571813411 |
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9781571813411 |
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BERGHAHN BOOKS, INCORPORATED |
Pub. date: |
4 January, 2002 |
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This first systematic study of mother-daughter relationships as represented in Western European fiction during the second half of the 20th century provides a comparative study of works from England, France, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Italy, and Spain. For each individual body of texts, the authors i |
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The psychoanalytic discovery of the importance of the preoedipal mother-daughter bond in the 1970s generated a vast amount of feminist theory attempting to identify the specificity of, and give value to, the daughter's relationship to her mother. At the same time women writers engaged in the complex task of representing this highly conflictual relationship which had been largely absent in women's narrative until then. Although much criticism has been written on individual texts, no systematic study of the development of this theme in Western European fiction exists. This book offers the first comparative assessment of the subject-matter in England, France, Germany and Austria, Ireland, Italy, and Spain in the second half of the last century. Among the writers featured are Steedman, Diski, Winterson, Tennant, de Beauvoir, Leduc, Djura, Wolf, Jelinek, Mitgutsch, Novak, Lavin, O'Brien, O'Faolain, Morante, Sanvitle, Ramondino, Chacel, Rodoreda, Martin Gaite. |
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Berghahn Books, Incorporated |
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