Mother's Pain, Mother's Voice
Gabriela Mistral, Julia Kristeva, and the Mater Dolorosa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16654166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Bruzelius (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tulsa Studies in Women s Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0732-7730 • E-ISSN: 1936-1645 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/464447 |
| OpenAlex | W2796954375 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This essay addresses the figure of the Virgin Mary as a uniquely powerful emblem of agonized motherhood that pervades Western consciousness. Taking as central examples, on the one hand, the early twentieth-century Chilean poet (and Nobel Prize winner) Gabriela Mistral’s poetry and, on the other hand, French theorist Julia Kristeva’s discussions of maternity, this essay probes the ways in which both writers locate the source of Mary’s power in her passive maternal suffering, even as each uses the Marian tradition to create a powerful female voice. The essay critiques the profoundly entrenched association of motherhood and suffering, a legacy of Mariolatry that identifies “true” maternity with suffering
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| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |