The mother/daughter plot
Subtitle: narrative, psychoanalysis, feminism
By: Marianne Hirsch.
Series: A Midland book ;; MB 532
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Feminist fiction -- History and criticism; Mothers and daughters in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature; Fiction -- Psychological aspects; Feminism in literature; Sex role in literature; Women and literature; Narration (Rhetoric)
Description: Includes information on anger, Margaret Atwood, Emma (Jane Austen), authority, The Awakening (Kate Chopin), Beloved (Toni Morrison), Nancy Chodorow, Clytemnestra and Electra, death, Demeter and Persephone, Daniel Deronda (George Eliot), Marguerite Duras, Everyday Use (Alice Walker), family romance, father, femininity, gender difference, heterosexuality, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, male, males, masculine, men, marriage plot, maternal, Oedipal theory, Oneʼs Own (Walker), patriarchy, plot, plot (female), pre-oedipal, procreation, Adrienne Rich, romance (love) plot, A Room of Oneʼs Own (Woolf), Sara Ruddick, separation from mother, Sula (Morrison), Susan Rubin Suleiman, Surfacing (Atwood), To the Lighthouse (Woolf), triangular relationships, voice, Edith Wharton, Christa Wolf, Virginia Woolf, etc.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 227-237.
Includes index.