Unspoken Heroines : Depictions of the Maternal in the Works of Frank O'Connor, Frank McCourt and Edna O'Brien
Author: Caitlin M. Farmer
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 98
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Reading Frank O'Connor's "Man of the House" and "My Oedipus Complex," Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" and Edna O'Brien's "The Country Girls" side-by-side, one sees a vivid illustration of the changing depictions of the mother character within Irish literature. The portrayal of mother characters in these works is significant to the literary representation of the social development of several generations of women within the Republic of Ireland. The depictions of the mother as see in the works of O'Connor, McCourt and O'Brien are also vital to the development of the female presence in literature bot as completely developed characters and as narrators, beginning with the see-but-rarely-heard mother, transitioning to the mother as family-advocate-and-constant, and ending with the sexually-driven-but-repressed mother teaching her daughter to evolve beyond tradition." from abstract