opens the way to the complex and vast enterprise of assessing how cultural difference impinges upon the configurations of the mother-daughter relationship" (2). In her preface, Giorgio acknowledges the collection's debt to Marianne Hirsch's book The Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis and Feminism (1989) that "while useful to understand the similarities between texts produced in different cultures during the past thirty years. In a timely fashion, Adalgisa Giorgio, a voracious reader and astute critic of contemporary Italian women's literature, has put together an excellent volume of six essays on the ever-increasing number of fictional narratives that include the mother-daughter theme in Spanish, Irish, Italian, French, British, and German-Austrian literatures. Oxford: Berghan Books, 2002.Īlthough contemporary feminist critical discourse on mothers and daughters has been dominated by Anglo-American and French theorists, recent essays by this reviewer, Lucia Re, Luisa Muraro, and Adriana Caverero in Graziella Patati and Rebecca West's Italian Feminist Theory and Practice: Equality and Sexual Difference (2002) discuss their interaction with and influence on the reevaluation of the mother-daughter dynamic in Italian feminist theory as well. Mothers and Daughters in Western Europe: Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women.
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