Mother, Memory, History
Maternal Genealogies in Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur T lum e Miracle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250277 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gil Zehava Hochberg |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-12 |
| Publication date | 2003-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2003.34.2.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2012266568 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 15 |
It is by her and through her, through "mother as a source of memory," that one is rooted in a genealogy, a past, a people, a tradition. "Mother" is often represented as a valuable source of unmediated, direct memory and as such is frequently and forcefully "kept in the past," located outside of history. Writing about the place of "mother" within the modern national (and anticolonial) discourse, Anne McClintock argues that women often function as unmediated channels of oral memory, while they are themselves "denied any direct relation to [historical] agency" (90). Positioning women/mothers as primary sites of (personal and social) memory, which is set in opposition to (official and written) history, national and anticolonial discourses limit the role of women, as Floya Anthias and Nira Yuval suggest, to "biological producers" and "transmitters of culture" (7). To this observation Partha Chatterjee adds that a system of dichotomies of inner/outer, home/world, tradition/modernity and feminine/masculine is responsible for assigning to "mother" the double role of "victim and hero." The maternal figure is supposed to represent the muted and stoic expression of a lost traditional identity and the hope for the future growth of the nation's spiritual essence (251)
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Dichotomy · Epistemology · Genealogy · HERO · Identity (music · Literature · Miracle · Modernity · Official history · Opposition (politics · Politics · Sociology · Theology · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Ar'N't I A Woman
The black Atlantic
Black Feminist Thought
Unclaimed Experience
Racialized Boundaries
Mirroring and Mothering in Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Telumee Miracle and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea
Between Memory and History
Black Matrilineage
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Women, Race and Class
Can you be Black and Look at This
Gayl Jones and the Matrilineal Metaphor of Tradition
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2020 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |