Title: | Reconstructing mother – daughter subjectivities through writing in Doris Lessing’s Under My Skin |
Author: | Anca Georgescu |
Publication: | Annals of „Valahia” University of Târgovişte. Letters Section, IX (1) |
p-ISSN: | 2066-6373 |
Publisher: | Valahia University Press |
Place: | Târgoviște |
Year: | 2011 |
Abstract: | This paper is focused on the traumatic experience of matrophobia, as informed by the feminist critic Nancy Chodorow and depicted by Doris Lessing in two of her autobiographical writings: Under My Skin and Walking in the Shade. I will demonstrate that autobiography writing provides Lessing with a means to explore and understand her matrophobia, and to create a sense of self out of her difficult relationship with her mother. |
Key words: | matrophobia, autobiography, subjectivity, self, motherhood |
Language: | English |
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