Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: Mothers are everywhere in literature, especially, though not exclusively, in work by women writers.As Marianne Hirsch's seminal study The Mother/Daughter Plot (1989) demonstrates, the literary representation of mothers is complex and fraught with contradiction.Mother-daughter relations, Hirsch finds, are particularly ambivalent, as daughters (and writers) negotiate their way through 'the fluctuations of symbiosis and separation' (20) in their relationships with their mothers, in a quest for their own sense of self.Hirsch focuses on Western European and North American
Source: Journal of Romance Studies
DOI: 10.3828/jrs.6.3.117
Author: Gill Rye
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4239382453