%0 Book
%A Wendy Goolcharan-Kumeta
%D 2021
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1422-9005
%T My Mother, My Country
%B Reconstructing the Female Self in Guadeloupean Women’s Writing
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1096724
%X This study is an in-depth exploration of mother-daughter relationships in the texts of five Guadeloupean women writers, both celebrated and less known. The five authors whose texts are examined are Maryse Condé, Myriam Warner-Vieyra, Michèle Lacrosil, Jacqueline Manicom and Simone Schwarz-Bart. The author sets out to prove that in the realm of French Caribbean «female-centric» fiction, a disturbed or ruptured relationship with the biological mother results in the disintegration of the daughter’s psyche and self. The mother-daughter bond functions as a focus for the exploration of other significant themes, which include a quest for an identity and identity formation, intimately linked to the issue of history and origins. Difficult male-female relations and the demoralizing questions of race, class and culture differences are also explored.
%K Guadeloupe, Geschichte 1960-1992, Women's writing, Caribbean female fiction, mother-daughter relationsship, Creole, female identity, identity formation, Französisch, Frauenprosa, Mutter (Motiv), Tochter (Motiv)
%G English