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3 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufc.38875
- isbn: 9782848676746
- eisbn: 9782848678788
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Glenda Norquay, « Mothers and Daughterlands in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Literature », Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, ID : 10.4000/books.pufc.38875
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This essay considers the deployment of mother and daughter dynamics as both dominant metaphors and structuring devices in contemporary Scottish women’s poetry and in other writing. It focuses on the work of Liz Lochhead, Carol Ann Duffy, Kathleen Jamie and Jackie Kay. It also references Janice Galloway’s memoir writing as an insight into the complex negotiations between mothers and daughters. The chapter argues that the construction of ‘daughterlands’, as spaces which carry multiple meanings and which occupy plural temporal dimensions, has shaped understanding of gender and national identity formations. These spaces of daughterhood are more troubling, challenging but also more productive than the much more common idea of a “motherland”.