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Gary, Lara Karine.

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Motherlands: Re -imagining maternal function in contemporary women's fiction.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Motherlands: Re -imagining maternal function in contemporary women's fiction./
Author:	Gary, Lara Karine.
Description:	218 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-08, Section: A, page: 2867.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-08A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3062213
ISBN:	9780493780740

Motherlands: Re -imagining maternal function in contemporary women's fiction.
Gary, Lara Karine.

Motherlands: Re -imagining maternal function in contemporary women's fiction. - 218 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-08, Section: A, page: 2867.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2002.

This study examines substitute mother-child relationships that inform the narrative strategies of contemporary women writing in English. Works by Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, Marilynne Robinson, and Doris Lessing are the focus of discussions. Feminist readings of Freudian psychoanalytic theory, as well as object-relations theory, intersubjectivity, trauma studies, and theories of women's autobiography guide the reading of these works. These approaches reveal how some women writers are using the model of substitute mother-child, particularly mother-daughter, relationships to suggest an alternative form of self-making.

ISBN: 9780493780740Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

Motherlands: Re -imagining maternal function in contemporary women's fiction.
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520 $a This study examines substitute mother-child relationships that inform the narrative strategies of contemporary women writing in English. Works by Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, Marilynne Robinson, and Doris Lessing are the focus of discussions. Feminist readings of Freudian psychoanalytic theory, as well as object-relations theory, intersubjectivity, trauma studies, and theories of women's autobiography guide the reading of these works. These approaches reveal how some women writers are using the model of substitute mother-child, particularly mother-daughter, relationships to suggest an alternative form of self-making.
520 $a Chapter One introduces much of the theory used in the rest of the study, examining how psychoanalytic theory, in particular, can be used to guide the reading of the four novels under consideration. Chapter Two explores Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace as a response to Freud's Dora . Chapter Three examines Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle as an example of the substitute-mother child relationship when it is contained within conventional societal norms. Chapter Four elucidates the alternative mother-child relationship in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, arguing that this somewhat more positive model of self-making requires a fluidity not currently allowed by societal norms. Chapter Five examines Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child as a manifesto arguing for inclusion of the alien other as the only means of repairing damage to self and society.
520 $a This study finds that alternative models of self-making, those divorced from the presence of the mother herself, form a rich category of contemporary women's writing. Two qualities emerge as critical to these authors' depiction of substitute mother-child relationships: first, such a substitution is itself difficult for the emerging self to negotiate safely, and second, these alternative forms of self-making serve as models for reconceptualizing the dichotomy of self and other.
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