TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pauline Eaton
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2235-4123
SN  - 9781800792234
TI  - Mothers Voicing Mothering?
T2  - The Representation of Motherhood in the Novels and Short Stories of Marie NDiaye
DO  - 10.3726/b18030
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1063420
N2  - Mothers and mothering are significant features of contemporary women’s writing in France and mothers are narrators and key protagonists in nearly all Marie NDiaye’s novels and short stories. These mothers rarely strike the reader as attractive personalities and, in their mothering role, are portrayed as inadequate, abusive or even murderous. A pattern of maternal failure is passed on from mother to daughter and the relationship between mothers and daughters is one of rejection and suppression.  This book explores what this negative representation tells us about mothers and about how mothers represent their own mothering to themselves. Close readings of text and intertext are at the centre of the analytic approach, embracing references to existing commentaries on the author and to the psychoanalytic, mythological, religious and literary background against which NDiaye’s mothers demand to be read.
KW  - Mothers as models: Medea and the Madonna, Good mothers, bad mothers and ordinary devoted mothers, Mothers and daughtersand  the mother/daughter plot, The representation of motherhood in the novels and novellas of Marie NDiaye, Pauline Eaton
LA  - English
ER  -