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The Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (Midland Book) - Softcover

Hirsch, Marianne

 
9780253205322: The Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (Midland Book)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253205328 ISBN 13: 9780253205322
Verlag: Indiana University Press, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

Mothers and daughters—the female figures neglected by classic psychoanalysis and submerged in traditional narrative—are at the center of this book. The novels of nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers from the Western European and North American traditions reveal that the story of motherhood remains the unspeakable plot of Western culture. Focusing on the feminine and, more controversially, on the maternal, this book alters our perception of both the familial structures basic to traditional narrative—the Oedipus story—and the narrative structures basic to traditional representations of the family—Freud's family romance. Confronting psychoanalytic theories of subject-formation with narrative theories, Marianne Hirsch traces the emergence and transformation of female family romance patterns from Jane Austen to Marguerite Duras.

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Marianne Hirsch

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Maternal repression is at the basis of the nineteenth-century realist novel. Only with modernism does the mother become a central figure-both celebrated and ambivalent -in daughter-artist's text and family romance. For modernist heroines, psychoanalytic theories of femininity of the 1920s and the 1930s, as well as the novels of Woolf, Colette, and Wharton, show painful oscillations and contradictions between maternal and paternal identifications. Hirsch argues that fictional and theoretical feminist writing still situates itself at uncomfortable distance from the maternal: the concrete stories of mothers are still unspeakable or as Alice Walker says, 'cruel enough to stop the blood.' They point to a feminist discourse of identity which begins with mothers and thereby reframes our conception of self, family, and plot.

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Verlag
Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1989
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0253205328
ISBN 13 
9780253205322
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
260
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