Mater Genetrix
Mater Genetrix
Les images de la mère dans la littérature contemporaine d’expression française
Herausgegeben von:Hertrampf, Marina Ortrud M.
Inhalt
Beyond the traditional dichotomy between idealized and "monstrous" mothers, the contributions gathered in this volume analyze a wide range of maternal figures in French and Francophone literature of the 20th–21st centuries, and question their purposes within the literary work – from the defense of feminist positions to a therapeutic, even narcissistic, confrontation with the
mater genetrix
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