Essays about: "Mother-daughter relationships."

Found 5 essays containing the words Mother-daughter relationships..

1. 1. Performing Mother and Daughter : A Postdramatic Performance Analysis of Three Contemporary Theatre Productions

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Elin Sandberg Hensch; [2023]
   Keywords : motherhood; postdramatic theatre; Hans-Thies Lehmann; performance analysis; mother-daughter relationship; contemporary theatre; Teater Galeasen; Kulturhuset Stadsteatern; Maxim Gorki Theater;

   Abstract : This master’s thesis is concerned with the portrayal of motherhood and mother-daughter relationships on stage. By conducting performance analyses of three separate contemporary performances, all focused on mother-daughter relationships, the thesis investigates the creation of mother and daughter on stage. READ MORE

3. 2. The Mah Jong Game of Life : Storytelling, Identity and Orientalist Discourse in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Victoria Balakireva; [2021]
   Keywords : Amy Tan; Asian American literature; Orientalism; language; storytelling; representation;

   Abstract : This project examines the connection between the representations of Chinese American women and the Orientalist discourse, as depicted in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. Using a deconstructive and intersectional approach, the project focuses on four interconnected constituents that regulate the novel’s main structural and thematic elements: Narrative Structure; Mother-Daughter Relationships; Language, Writing and Identity; and Feminist Affirmations. READ MORE

4. 3. Thick Love : A Psychoanalytical Study of Mother-Daughter Relationships in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för utbildningsvetenskap

   Author : Khuteibe Hashim; [2021]
   Keywords : Psychoanalytical Criticism; Sigmund Freud; Jacques Lacan; Julia Kristeva; Beloved; Toni Morrison; Abjection; Semiotic; Symbolic; Imaginary; Mirror-stage; Defense Mechanism;

   Abstract : This study employs psychoanalytical theories to explore how the conscious, unconscious, and subconscious workings of the mind, combined with a search for identity, are presented and dealt with in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved (1987). It is done through a close reading and in-depth textual analysis of thematic concerns raised in the work. READ MORE

5. 4. Why Read Fiction in the English Language Classroom? : Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

   University essay from Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Kristina Nylin; [2012]
   Keywords : Literacy; Language learning; Reading; Didactics; Gy11; African American; Mother-daughter relationships.;

   Abstract : The essay makes a case for the use of the Nobel Prize-winning (1993) author Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye (1970) in the English language classroom. The essay argues that the novel is an excellent reading choice and to what is appropriate according to the learning goals stated in Gy11's course syllabus English 6. READ MORE

6. 5. Mothers and Daughters between Two Cultures in Short Fiction by Edwidge Danticat

   University essay from Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Kristine Abrahamsson; [2011]
   Keywords : Edwidge Danticat; Krik? Krak!; mother-daughter; relationships; immigration;

   Abstract : This essay takes a look at two short stories from the novel Krik? Krak! written by the Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat. The short stories “Caroline’s Wedding” and “New York Day Women” are about mother-daughter relationships where the mothers and daughters are either first or second generations immigrants from Haiti. READ MORE