The mother/daughter plot: narrative, psychoanalysis, feminism

Introduction: Unspeakable plots

Prelude: Origins and paradigms: Electra, Demeter, Clytemnestra

PART I. REALISM AND MATERNAL SILENCE

1. Female family romances

A more archaic murder: Freud, Austen, Brontes, Shelley, Sand, Chopin

2. Fraternal plots

Beyond repetition: Eliot

PART II. MODERNISM AND THE MATERNAL

3. The darkest plots

Narration and the compulsory heterosexuality: Freud, Horney, Woolf, Colette, Wharton

PART III. POSTMODERNIST PLOTS-MATERNAL SUBJECTS

4. Feminist family romances

Life before Oedipus: Rich, Chodorow, Irigaray, Atwood, Duras, Wolf

5. Feminist Discourse-maternal discourse

Speaking with two voices: Kristeva, Suleiman, Ruddick, Johnson, Morrison, Walker.

Introduction: Unspeakable plots

Prelude: Origins and paradigms: Electra, Demeter, Clytemnestra

Female family romances

A more archaic murder: Freud, Austen, Brontes, Shelley, Sand, Chopin

Fraternal plots

Beyond repetition: Eliot

The darkest plots

Narration and the compulsory heterosexuality: Freud, Horney, Woolf, Colette, Wharton

Feminist family romances

Life before Oedipus: Rich, Chodorow, Irigaray, Atwood, Duras, Wolf

Feminist Discourse-maternal discourse

Speaking with two voices: Kristeva, Suleiman, Ruddick, Johnson, Morrison, Walker.