Amour maternel, ou, Sublimation de femmes
Subtitle: des écrivaines interrogent altérité, maternité et création
By: Corinne Cammaréri
Series: Collection "Enfance et parentalité"
Publisher: Erès
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toulouse
Language: fre
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9782749216409
Subjects: French literature; Motherhood in literature; Women authors; Creativity in literature; Sublimation (Psychology); History and criticism; Love, Maternal, in literature
Other titles: Amour maternel; Sublimation de femmes
Description: What happens to women's writing when it collides with the physical demands of motherhood and makes it so necessary for them to come to terms with their maternal passion? Women writers such as Colette, Anais Nin, Marguerite Duras, Nancy Huston, Julia Kristeva, Christine Angot and Marie Darrieussecq, from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, follow as closely as possible the construction of a maternal discourse within their writing. They use their art to go beyond the passion while passing on the language, the ability to think and to create to that other being, their child. They bridge the cleavage of maternal passion to avoid choosing between submission or sublimation. Traversing their inner experience, they experience maternal as well as the sublimation of women.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-266).