Maternal genealogies: the figure of the mother in/and literature

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

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