Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal

Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 9780429575259
ISBN-13 : 0429575254
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Book Synopsis Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal by : James Martell

Download or read book Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal written by James Martell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on their conception and use of the notion of the mother, Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal proposes a new interpretation of literature by modernist authors like Rousseau, Baudelaire, Poe, Rimbaud, Rilke, Joyce, and Beckett. Seen through this maternal relation, their writing appears as the product of an "anxiety" rising not from paternal influence, but from the violence done to their mother in their attempts at self-creation through writing. In order to bring to light this modernist violence, this study analyzes these authors in tandem with Derrida’s work on the gender-specific violence of the Western philosophical and literary tradition. The book demonstrates how these writer-sons wrote their works in a constant crisis vis-à-vis the mother’s body as site of both origin and dissolution. It proves how, if modernism was first established as a patrilineal heritage, it was ultimately written on the bodies of women and mothers, confusing them in order to appropriate their generative traits.


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