Mother tongues
Subtitle: sexuality, trials, motherhood, translation
By: Barbara Johnson.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Sex differences (Psychology) in literature.; Sex role in literature.; Feminism and literature.
Description: "Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and Sylvia Plath make up the odd trio on which this book is based. It is in the surprising and revealing links between them - links pertaining to troublesome mothers, elusive foreign languages, and professional disappointments - that Barbara Johnson maps the coordinates of her larger claims about the ideal of oneness in every area of life, and about the damage done by this ideal."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.