The Story You Were Telling Us' Re-Reading love in Alice Walker's By The Light of My Father's Smile through Luce Irigaray's Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5282020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Özlem Görey (Bogaziçi University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-44 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic studies review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1555-1881 • E-ISSN: 2576-2915 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/esr.2003.26.1.29 |
| OpenAlex | W2762006956 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article considers Alice Walker's novel By the Light of My Father's Smile in the light of the theories of French feminist Luce Irigaray. It concentrates particularly on the redefinition of love through the creation of a maternal genealogy. It explores how the severe punishment of one of the daughters, as a result of her love affair with a young Indian boy, results in the deep scarring of all the family for the rest of their lives. Interpreting this traumatic event as a metaphorical Oedipal break from the mother, this discussion aims to show the ways in which both the novelist and the theoretician explore the possibility of redefining the term 'love' through the mother-daughter relationship
Alice (programming language · Art · Art history · Daughter · Event (particle physics · Linguistics · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Punishment (psychology · Reading (process · Reflexive pronoun · Canadian Identity and History · Evelyn Waugh and Hans Urs von Balthasar Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Travel Writing and Literature
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |