Year: 2002
Editor: Adalgisa Giorgio
Authors: Adalgisa Giorgio, Christine Arkinstall, Anne Fogarty, Alex Hughes, Paola Splendore, Chris Weedon
Genre: Literary criticism, collection of articles
Publisher: Berghahn Books (March 2002)
ISBN: 1571819533
English language
Format: DjVu
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Number of Pages: 267

The psychoanalytic discovery of the importance of the preoedipal mother-daughter bond in the 1970s generated a vast amount of feminist theory attempting to identify the specificity of, and give value to, the daughter's relationship to her mother. At the same time women writers engaged in the complex task of representing this highly conflictual relationship which had been largely absent in women's narrative until then. Although much criticism has been written on individual texts, no systematic study of the development of this theme in Western European fiction exists. This book offers the first comparative assessment of the subject-matter in England, France, Germany and Austria, Ireland, Italy, and Spain in the second half of the last century. Among the writers featured are Steedman, Diski, Winterson, Tennant, de Beauvoir, Leduc, Djura, Wolf, Jelinek, Mitgutsch, Novak, Lavin, O'Brien, O'Faolain, Morante, Sanvitle, Ramondino, Chacel, Rodoreda, Martin Gaite.

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction Mothers and Daughters in Western Europe: Mapping the Territory (Adalgisa Giorgio)
Chapter One Writing the Mother-Daughter Relationship: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Literary Criticism (Adalgisa Giorgio)
Chapter Two Towards a Female Symbolic: Re-Presenting Mothers and Daughters in Contemporary Spanish Narrative by Women (Christine Arkinstall)
Chapter Three 'The Horror of the Unlived Life': Mother-Daughter Relationships in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction (Anne Fogarty)
Chapter Four The Passion for the Mother: ConHicts and Idealisations in Contemporary Italian Narrative (Adalgisa Giorgio)
Chapter Five Writing Mother-Daughter Relationality in the French Context (Alex Hughes)
Chapter Six Bad Daughters and Unniotherly Mothers: The New Pamily Plot in the Contemporary Knglish Novel (Paola Splendore)
Chapter Seven Power and Powerlessness: Mothers and Daughters in Postwar German and Austrian literature (Chris Weedon)
Index

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