Writing Mothers Writing Daughters

Author : Adalgisa Giorgio
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571813411
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Mothers and Daughters written by Adalgisa Giorgio and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first systematic study of mother-daughter relationships as represented in Western European fiction during the second half of the 20th century provides a comparative study of works from England, France, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Italy, and Spain. For each individual body of texts, the authors identify characteristics arising from specific national literary traditions and from internal cultural diversities. The text suggests avenues for future investigation both within and across national boundaries. The featured writers include Steedman, Diski, Winterson, Tennant, de Beauvoir, Leduc, Djura, Wolf, Jelinek, Mitgutsch, Novak, Lavin, O'Brien, O'Faolin, Morante, Sanvitale, Ramondino, Chacel, Rodoreda, and Martin Gaite. The six contributing authors are scholars from New Zealand, England, Ireland, Italy and Wales. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Alice Fitzgerald
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760635871
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Mother's Daughter written by Alice Fitzgerald and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1980: Josephine escapes her home in Ireland, hoping never to return. She starts a new, exciting life in London, but as much as she tries, she can't quite leave the trauma of her childhood behind. Seventeen years and two children later, Josephine gets a call from her sister to tell her that their mother is dying and wants to see her - a summons she can't refuse. 1997: Ten-year-old Clare is counting down to the summer holidays, when she is going to meet her grandparents in Ireland for the first time. She hopes this trip will be 'just what the doctor ordered' and cheer her mum up. But family secrets can't stay buried forever and following revelations in Ireland Josephine and her family unravel, perhaps to the point of no return.

Author : Erika Gottlieb
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554580307
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming My Mother's Daughter written by Erika Gottlieb and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2008-03-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming My Mother’s Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of Europe, from the First World War through the Holocaust and the communist takeover after World War II, to the family’s dramatic escape and emmigration to Canada. The emotional centre and narrative voice of the story belong to Eva, an artist, dreamer, and writer trying to work through her complex and deep relationship with her mother, whose portrait she cannot paint until she completes her journey through memory. The core of the book is Eva’s riveting recollection of the last months of World War II in Budapest, seen through a child’s eyes, and is reminiscent in its power of scenes in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan. Exploring the bond between generations of mothers and daughters, the book illustrates the struggle between the need for independence and the search for continuity, the significant impact of childhood on adult life, the reshaping of personality in immigration, the importance of dreams in making us face reality, and the redemptive power of memory. Illustrations by the author throughout the book, some in colour, enhance the story.

Author : Emily Bernard
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0451493028
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black is the Body written by Emily Bernard and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays on race"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Janet Burstein
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065552
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters written by Janet Burstein and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666702862
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mother Daughter Speak written by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother-daughter relationships can be wonderful and powerful. They can also be stressful, challenging, and painful; yet they are often delicate and tender. After losing her mother, Kim shares that strengthening her own mother-daughter relationship was more important than ever. Kim’s and Lee’s personal reflections in this book from family, to real life challenges, to faith, are attempts to open the dialogue between family members and communities. They share some of their vulnerabilities and pains in hopes that this kind of sharing will encourage others to engage in similar intimate dialogue.

Author : Wendy Ho
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742503373
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Her Mother's House written by Wendy Ho and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourses of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to specific spoken stories of mothers and daughters. Against reductive tendencies of scholarship, she places her own conversations with her China-born grandmother and her U.S.-born mother and her own readings of other Asian American women writers. She finds in the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Fae Myenne Ng not only complex mother-daughter relationships but many-faceted relationships to fathers, family, community, and culture. Always resisting the simplistic explanations, In Her Mother's House brings Asian American women's experience as mothers and daughters to the forefront of gender and ethnicity.

Author : Carrie Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734618617
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures in Kindness written by Carrie Fox and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning action/adventure book for kind kids now in an expanded second edition! Featuring 52+ impactful adventures for kids, to make kindness and compassion a daily practice. Easy-to-follow, brilliant illustrations.

Author : Michaela DePrince
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0385755147
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina written by Michaela DePrince and published by Ember. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE! The extraordinary memoir of an orphan who danced her way from war-torn Sierra Leone to ballet stardom, most recently appearing in Beyonce’s Lemonade and as a principal in a major American dance company. "Michaela is nothing short of a miracle, born to be a ballerina. For every young brown, yellow, and purple dancer, she is an inspiration!” —Misty Copeland, world-renowned ballet dancer Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a “devil child” for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life. At the age of four, Michaela was adopted by an American family, who encouraged her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes. She went on to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre and is now the youngest principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She has appeared in the ballet documentary First Position, as well as on Dancing with the Stars, Good Morning America, and Nightline. In this engaging, moving, and unforgettable memoir, Michaela shares her dramatic journey from an orphan in West Africa to becoming one of ballet’s most exciting rising stars. “Michaela DePrince is the embodiment of what it means to fight for your dream.” —Today “Michaela DePrince is a role model for girls on and off stage.” —NYLON

Author : Leigh M. O'Brien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing the Motherline written by Leigh M. O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this co-edited volume, women educators figuratively gather in "the red tent" (Diamant, 1997) to share stories of the inseparability of what they do as mothers of daughters (and grandmothers of granddaughters) from their work as educators and social activists. By acting and speaking jointly and publicly about their varying "projects" of mothering and educating, this work celebrates mothers' and daughters' strengths and the bonds between them. This work considers the mother-daughter bond through maternal storytelling or narrative and the Motherline. The narratives foreground the theory that a strong mother-daughter connection leads to empowerment, and attempt to link that connection with education as grand/mother-educators and their grand/daughters weave their personal and professional lives into an ever-evolving tapestry. Drawing from a range of feminist theories in action, contributors to this volume offer stories of the Motherlines that illuminate the complexities of these powerful relationships. Using counter-narratives to patriarchal framings of family, this collection affirms the power of women educators telling and reading their stories as a means of self-discovery, empowerment, and, ultimately, cultural transformation.