The psychoanalytic discovery of the importance of the pre-oedipal
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 last century. The six main chapters explore the
interplay between narrative strategies, psychic structures, and
socio-political and cultural processes in the textual
representation of the relationship in each country, thus providing
original interpretations both of classic texts by established
writers and of more recent narratives by new or emerging authors.
Among the writers featured are Steedman, Diski, Winterson, Tennant,
de Beauvoir, Leduc, Djura, Wolf, Jelinek, Mitgutsch, Novak, Lavin,
O'Brien, O'Faolain, Morante, Sanvitale, Ramondino, Chacel,
Rodoreda, Martin Gaite.
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