'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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University of Aberdeen
2002
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