I Am for You What You Want Me to Be

Motherhood and Women’s Quest for Self in Sula

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211120.079How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Helene Cixous; Toni Morrison; motherhood; female identity; feminine writing

Abstract

Helene Cixous came up with the idea of “feminine writing” and discussed its relationship with motherhood in The Laugh of The Medusa, in which she view “mother” as an idealistic metaphor. In contrast, Toni Morrison created more complicated mothers and mother-daughter relationships in her novels, especially in Sula. Both Cixous and Morrison involved the connection of females’ self-identities and the role of mother, but they presented in different ways. By examining these two texts, this passage aims to analyze how positive and negative aspects of mother-daughter relationships contribute to women’s self-identities.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Haiqing Wang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/29
TI  - I Am for You What You Want Me to Be
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 419
EP  - 423
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211120.079
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211120.079
ID  - Wang2021
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