Mother/Daughter Plot by Marianne Hirsch
Maternal repression is at the basis of the nineteenth-century realist novel. Only with modernism does the mother become a central figure-both celebrated and ambivalent -in daughter-artist's text and family romance. For modernist heroines, psychoanalytic theories of femininity of the 1920s and the 1930s, as well as the novels of Woolf, Colette, and Wharton, show painful oscillations and contradictions between maternal and paternal identifications. Hirsch argues that fictional and theoretical feminist writing still situates itself at uncomfortable distance from the maternal: the concrete stories of mothers are still unspeakable or as Alice Walker says, 'cruel enough to stop the blood.' They point to a feminist discourse of identity which begins with mothers and thereby reframes our conception of self, family, and plot.-
Crow Killer
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Remasculinization of America
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Kubrick
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A Weave of Women
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The Jazz Poetry Anthology
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Doing Physics
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Technology and the Lifeworld
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Art and Culture in Nineteenth-century Russia
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Sexual Difference
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Epic of Son-Jara
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The American Civil War and the Origins of Modern Warfare
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Technique and Interpretation on the Harpsichord and Clavichord
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Twentieth Century Chinese Drama
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Definitive Time Machine
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Salvation and Suicide
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Instrumental Realism
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Romanticism and Feminism
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History of the Concept of Time
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Chaste Thinking
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The United States in the Middle East
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Sign of Three
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Burning Fountain
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Poetry with a Purpose
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William James and Phenomenology
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Reed Design for Early Woodwinds
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Social Epistemology
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History of the Habsburg Jews, 1670-1918
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Paths Toward a Clearing
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The Angel and the Serpent
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Black Sister
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Quilts of Indiana
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Empty Place
Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia University. Her most recent books are Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, written with Leo Spitzer, and The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust. Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her most recent books are But Enough About Me: Why We Read Other People's Lives and the family memoir, What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780253327482 |
| ISBN 10 | 0253327482 |
| Title | Mother/Daughter Plot |
| Author | Marianne Hirsch |
| Series | A Midland Book |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press |
| Year published | 1989-01-08 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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