Feminist Recoveries in My Father's House

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7773520
AutoresChristine Clegg (autor de correspondencia)
Año1999
Volumen61
Número1
Páginas67-82
Fecha de publicación1999-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/014177899339306
OpenAlexW2025241924
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas4

One of the achievements of feminist politics, in a range of disciplines and practices, has been to secure a hearing for traumatic narratives of incest. Recently, however, the debate in the public domain seems overwhelmed by what has come to be known as ‘the memory wars’. Fathers accused by adult daughters have dismissed the possibility that traumatic childhood memories can be recovered, largely on the grounds of science and reason. This response of accused fathers would seem to drive out other ways of reading and interpreting the traumatic histories of the cultures we inhabit. On the other hand, feminist responses to narratives of incest are complicated by the desire for appropriate endings. Taking Sylvia Fraser's autobiography, My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and Healing (1989, 1992) as an exemplary text, this article explores the difficult implications for adult women who commit to literary writing their memories of incest. In particular, how can feminism respond to an incest survivor who wants to forgive her father

Art · Biography · Commit · Feminism · Literature · Memoir · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Irish and British Studies · Law · Psychology · Short Stories in Global Literature