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The mother/daughter plotThe mother/daughter plot

The mother/daughter plot1989

Marianne Hirsch

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Includes information on anger, Margaret Atwood, Emma (Jane Austen), authority, The Awakening (Kate Chopin), Beloved (Toni Morrison), Nancy Chodorow, Clytemnestra and Electra, death, Demeter and Persephone, Daniel Deronda (George Eliot), Marguerite Duras, Everyday Use (Alice Walker), family romance, father, femininity, gender difference, heterosexuality, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, male, males, masculine, men, marriage plot, maternal, Oedipal theory, Oneʼs Own (Walker), patriarchy, plot, plot (female), pre-oedipal, procreation, Adrienne Rich, romance (love) plot, A Room of Oneʼs Own (Woolf), Sara Ruddick, separation from mother, Sula (Morrison), Susan Rubin Suleiman, Surfacing (Atwood), To the Lighthouse (Woolf), triangular relationships, voice, Edith Wharton, Christa Wolf, Virginia Woolf, etc.

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First published
1989
OL Work ID
OL3352831W

Subjects

Psychological aspects of FictionFeminism in literaturePsychoanalysis and literatureMothers and daughters in literatureHistory and criticismSex role in literatureFictionFeminist fictionWomen authorsNarration (Rhetoric)Women and literaturePsychological aspectsPsychologische aspectenVerteltheorieSchriftstellerinLiteraturFéminisme dans la littératureAspect psychologique

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