Hang, csend és identitás: Anyák és lányok Tillie Olsen és Amy Tan narratíváiban

Andrea Puskás

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume XVIII. , Issue 2, 2023, p. 19-34 , ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2023.18.2.19-34

Abstract:

The paper focuses on the mother-daughter relationship, the portrayal of mothers and daughters in Tillie Olsen’s short story I Stand Here Ironing and Amy Tan’s story Two Kinds, which is part of the novel The Joy Luck Club. The main starting point is a feminist literary criticism point of view, which traces the resonance of the feminist principles of the time in the selected texts, and uses a close-reading technique to examine the presence of the mother and/or the daughter and her voice in the text, as well as the dynamics and nature of their relationship. While Tillie Olsen’s short story concentrates on the mother and more specifically textual silence, she presents the mother a victim, Amy Tan’ narrative is dominated by the daughter’s perspective, the reinterpreting and redefinition of the mother image, which is an important element in the development of personal identity.

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