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Intergenerational Conflict in Ethnic Literature - Mothers from a Different World (Paperback)
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Examination Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject English -
Literature, Works, grade: 1,5, University of Augsburg (Neue
Englische Literaturen und Kulturwissenschaft), course: New English
Literatures, language: English, abstract: The relationship between
a mother and her children has been a prominent topic in literature
ever since the genre of written fiction has become popular in the
past. Mother figures from Jocasta in the ancient Greek tragedy King
Oedipus and Gertrude in the Shakespeare classic Hamlet to Norma
Bates in the 20th century suspense novel Psycho, to name but a few,
have thrilled the audience as well as given critics a diverse
subject to deal with. One reason for this ongoing fascination over
centuries of literary production may lie in the extraordinarily
complex relationship structure which can be developed between a
mere dyad of people who happen to be mother and child. Yet, another
reason for the perpetual re-invention of the issue can be found in
its apparent comprehensibility: every human being has a biological
mother and gets socialized by at least one focal person of
reference which enables them to relate to the fictional stories
easily. The unique quality of mothers in this process - as plain as
it sounds - still is their ability to bear children, and by this
act to establish an irreplaceable link to another human being. In
the twentieth century, the socio-anthropological development has
created a myriad of new possibilities and demographic changes that
consequently were to find their way into literature and even have
created new genres. Due to "significant shifts ...] in attitudes
towards sexuality" (Allan 10), technological advance, and
demographic changes, a whole new range of potential life-styles has
evolved since the end of World War II. This involved deconstruction
of a traditional middle-class myth, namely the breaking up of the
nuclear family's near-monopoly position has ultimately led to an
"increasing diversity occurring in family
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