'Corpses in the church and mouths of men' : mothers, daughters and the maternal in selected novels of Michele Roberts

Taking as a starting point Luce Irigaray's assertion that women require a female genealogy in order to become subjects, I trace the flow of the maternal throughout nine novels of Michele Roberts. This maternal inheritance is necessary if women are not to be left in the state described by Irigar...

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Main Author: Falcus, Sarah Jayne
Published: University of Aberdeen 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395047