Mother, She Wrote
Subtitle: Matrilineal Narratives in Contemporary Women's Writing
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: December 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780820469003
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 20th century; English prose literature; History and criticism; Mothers and daughters in liter; Mothers and daughters in literature; Women Authors
Description: "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."--Jacket.