Littérature scientifique sur le sujet « Mothers and daughters – antigua – fiction »

This essay takes a look at two short stories from the novel Krik? Krak! written by the Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat. The short stories “Caroline’s Wedding” and “New York Day Women” are about mother-daughter relationships where the mothers and daughters are either first or second generations immigrants from Haiti. This essay focuses on these relationships and how they are related to immigration. To address these issues of relationships and immigration, several critics and their opinions on the subject are presented as well as an examination of key events in the short stories.

This project consisted of a series of short stories which worked together creating a larger fictional piece in the form of a non-continuous narrative. This non-continuous narrative is in the tradition of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine. The stories in this type of fiction are connected by similar themes and settings, allowing the reader to participate directly in the creative process. The reader helps create the fiction by drawing his or her own conclusions about the characters and places from between the individual stories. By involving the reader more directly in the outcome, this type of narrative creates a more emotional response to the work. Each of the stories in this project were set in a town called Sand Beach, Michigan, and involved four generations of women in a single family. The major themes of the stories were mother/daughter relationships, healing, and redemption. Common images in the stories presented were, Lake Huron, the town of Sand Beach, and a rock in the local region bearing Native American petroglyphs Each of these images participated in the development of the common themes.<br>Department of English

This dissertation examines mother-daughter relationships in six novels written by German speaking women authors in the decade after the "Year of the Woman." Three novels depict positive mother-daughter relations: Ausflug mit der Mutter (1976), by Gabriele Wohmann, Gestern war Heute (1979), by Ingeborg Drewitz, Die dreizehnte Fee (1983), by Katja Behrens. Three others portray a negative mother-daughter relationship: Die Eisheiligen (1979), by Helga Novak, Die Zuchtigung (1985), by Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch, and Die Klavierspielerin (1983), by Elfriede Jelinek. Common to all novels is a strong autobiographical tendency and the central importance of the mother in the development of the daughter's self-identity.<br>The complexity and problems of mother-daughter relationships are analyzed as an outcome of female socialization within a patriarchal society. Chapter I deals with historical, economic and psychological oppression of women. The resulting internalization of the role of inferiority and dependency leads to the subsequent repression of their own daughters. Chapter II discusses new contributions in the fields of psychology and sociology to the understanding of female identity formation through relationships. Chapter III provides a two-pronged analysis of each novel by describing the individual mother-daughter relationship in comparison with the outcomes of Chapters I and II, and by addressing the narrator's process of putting the experience into a unique literary form and thus contributing to women's literature.<br>Themes that are unique in each novel are: the emotional stress of the adult daughter trying to redefine her relationship with her widowed mother (Ausflug mit der Mutter), the dichotomy of woman in her nurturing role as mother and in her quest for self-realization (Gestern war Heute), the difficulty of breaking the repetitive cycle of the female role of dependency (Die dreizehnte Fee). All of the following novels assess the damaged self-identity of the daughter caused by a destructive mother. While the daughters survive due to fierce resistance (Die Eisheiligen) or escape into the world of art (Die Zuchtigung) there is no hope for the daughter in Die Klavierspielerin due to her identification with the oppressor.

O presente Trabalho de Projeto tem como objetivo apresentar uma proposta de tradução de dois contos da escritora norte-americana contemporânea Alyssa Wong, sendo estes “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” e “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers”, à qual se segue um comentário à mencionada proposta de tradução. Para a execução do presente Trabalho de Projeto, começa-se com uma breve contextualização teórica, aborda-se o conceito de “ficção especulativa”, género literário no qual se inserem os contos de Wong, e tecem-se algumas considerações sobre a sua presença no sistema literário português. De seguida, é feita uma descrição sumária da vida e obra da autora, antes da proposta de tradução e do respetivo comentário. Neste último, abordam-se os problemas e dificuldades terminológicos, gramaticais e culturais mais relevantes enfrentados durante o processo de tradução.<br>This Project aims to present a translation proposal of two short stories by the contemporary American writer Alyssa Wong, “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” and “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers”, which will be followed by a commentary on the already mentioned translation proposal. For the execution of this Project, a brief contextualization related to Translation Studies is provided, as well as some considerations on the concept “speculative fiction”, the literary genre of Wong’s short stories, and its presence in the Portuguese literary system. A brief description of the author's life and work is also added. The translation proposal and respective commentary follow. In the latter, the most relevant terminological, grammatical and cultural problems and difficulties faced during the translation process are addressed.

Fiction: Alice. Exegesis: The Mother-Daughter Relationship in Lives of Girls and Women. This thesis consists of a creative fiction component, Alice, and an exegesis that is a literary analysis of the mother-daughter relationship in Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women. Alice is a collection of nine short stories that looks at both the mother and daughter’s perspective of their relationship. The location is Crookwell, a small country town in New South Wales, set in the period following World War II until the 1970s. The exegesis examines the representation of conflictual patterns in the mother-daughter relationship – in Lives of Girls and Women – at a time and within a society that is on the cusp of change. It also examines the unconscious influence of the Second Wave feminist movement on Munro’s thinking. Like many regions of rural Australia, there appears to be no fiction set specifically in the Crookwell district. In a fashion similar to Munro, in Alice I seek to illuminate a bygone period and lifestyle. The short story cycle allows me to depict glimpses of ordinary everyday life and to capture attitudes within the community that influence the mother-daughter relationship of the central characters. Of special significance is the effect of organised religion and its influence on motherhood. Munro describes a community that enforces the ‘institute of motherhood,’ as described by Adrienne Rich (1995), the structured concepts demanded of men and women in the 1940s and 1950s, and the subsequent tensions that emerge between mother and daughter as an apparent consequence of these social expectations. The exegesis examines why Munro’s presentation of the mother-daughter relationship in Lives of Girls and Women is still relevant, and argues that, regardless of the social, cultural and contextual forces that moderate this relationship, there remains an ongoing primal tension between mother and daughter as the daughter seeks to differentiate herself and the mother struggles to be heard. By setting Alice in the Australian rural community of Crookwell, between the 1950s and 1970s, I seek to similarly explore the particular attitudes and tensions that arise for mothers and daughters away from the major cities. It is a theme that has been largely neglected in Australian literature to date.