Mother Tongues : : Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation / / Barbara E. Johnson.
Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and Sylvia Plath make up the odd trio on which this book is based. It is in the surprising and revealing links between them--links pertaining to troublesome mothers, elusive foreign languages, and professional disappointments--that Barbara Johnson maps the coordi...
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Johnson, Barbara E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Mother Tongues : Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation / Barbara E. Johnson. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2003] ©2003 1 online resource (224 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Correctional Facilities -- 2. L’Esthétique du Mal -- 3. The Task of the Translator -- 4. The Poet’s Mother -- 5. Passage Work -- 6. Construction Work -- 7. Doing Time -- 8. Animate Alphabets -- Notes -- Credits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and Sylvia Plath make up the odd trio on which this book is based. It is in the surprising and revealing links between them--links pertaining to troublesome mothers, elusive foreign languages, and professional disappointments--that Barbara Johnson maps the coordinates of her larger claims about the ideal of oneness in every area of life, and about the damage done by this ideal. The existence of sexual difference precludes an original or ultimate "one" who would represent all of mankind; the plurality of languages makes it impossible to think that one doesn't live in translation; and the plurality of the sexes means that every human being came from a woman's body, and some will reproduce this feat, while others won't. In her most personal and deeply considered book about difference, Johnson asks: Is the mother the guardian of a oneness we have never had? The relations that link mothers, bodies, words, and laws serve as the guiding puzzles as she searches for an answer. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Feminism and literature. Sex differences (Psychology) in literature. Sex role in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674274242?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674274242 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674274242/original |
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