Writing mothers and daughters
Subtitle: renegotiating the mother in Western European narratives by women
By: edited by Adalgisa Giorgio.
Contributors: Giorgio, Adalgisa.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Mothers in literature.; Mothers and daughters in literature.; European fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; European fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Introduction Mothers and Daughters in Western Europe:; title: Mapping the Territory; title: Adalgisa Giorgio; title: Chapter One Writing the Mother-Daughter Relationship:; title: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Literary Criticism; title: Adalgisa Giorgio; title: Chapter Two Towards a Female Symbolic: Re-Presenting Mothers; title: and Daughters in Contemporary Spanish Narrative; title: by Women; title: Christine Arkinstall; title: Chapter Three 'The Horror of the Unlived Life': Mother-Daughter; title: Relationships in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction; title: Anne Fogarty; title: Chapter Four The Passion for the Mother: Conflicts and Idealisations; title: in Contemporary Italian Narrative by Women; title: Adalgisa Giorgio; title: Chapter Five Writing Mother-Daughter Relationality in the; title: French Context; title: Alex Hughes; title: Chapter Six Bad Daughters and Unmotherly Mothers: The New; title: Family Plot in the Contemporary English Novel; title: Paola Splendore; title: Chapter Seven Power and Powerlessness: Mothers and Daughters; title: in Postwar German and Austrian Literature; title: Chris Weedon; title: Index.