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- Title
In Search of a Mère-Patrie: the forgotten mother in the works of Djura and Maryse Condé.
- Authors
Frederick, Patricia
- Abstract
The renowned feminist theorist, Luce Irigaray in her writings on feminine genealogies, states that the question for the Western philosopher is how to recover a buried feminine darkness how to 'remember the forgotten mother'. In a number of works by Djura, a North-African Kabyle singer and storyteller known by her first name alone, and those of Maryse Condé, celebrated novelist, playwright and prolific writer from Guadeloupe, we find in the minds of the protagonists this desire to recover the forgotten mother' intimately linked to a quest to return to a homeland. The object of this study is to consider this quest for a 'mere-patrie' in texts' that treat the theme of motherhood from vastly different cultural perspectives. Both of these authors explore diverse manifestations of this quest and treat such themes as in!posed ,geographic exile, the postcolonial condition, self-actualization, and the recovery ora lost cultural and linguistic identity.
- Subjects
FEMINISTS; IRIGARAY, Luce, 1932-; PHILOSOPHERS
- Publication
International Journal of Francophone Studies, 2001, Vol 4, Issue 2, p116
- ISSN
1368-2679
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/ijfs.4.2.116