the representation of doubling identities in the British and Polish women's literature (1846-1938)
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Naszkowska, Klara
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuur, Engels, Pools, identiteit, mannelijkheid, vrouwelijkheid, moeders, vaders, psychoanalyse, feminisme, 1850-1899, 19e eeuw, 1900-1949, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book identifies a corpus of British and Polish texts that share correspondences with reference to the themes of feminine doubling, the difficulty of asserting feminine subjectivity, sexual mother-figures and symbolic father-figures. It draws on the Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and the French feminist uses of it known as écriture féminine - the theories of Luce Irigaray and Hélène Cixous. It also introduces the theories of the Russian-Jewish psychoanalyst, Sabina Spielrein. The first part of the book takes account of specifics of Polish culture and history that made women writers marginalised within this context. In the second part, it examines British and Polish texts.