Motherhood questioned in “Yesterday’s Weather” by Anne Enright and “Conservas” by Samanta Schweblin”

Authors

  • Patricia Guzmán

Keywords:

Motherhood, Comparative Literature Studies, Feminism

Abstract

This paper aims to review briefly the feminist critique of motherhood, taking into account the representations of motherhood in two short stories written by contemporary authors, Anne Enright from Irelandand Samanta Schweblin from Argentina. The need to refute and debate patriarchal discourses on motherhood is not the heritage of feminist intellectuals of the 20th and 21st centuries, but it is evident in the work of many writers. This article seeks to investigate the links between the construction of motherhood as social relationship and literature, being this a space of confluence for various social discourses that resignify themselves in the different fields they circulate. This work does not intend tobe exhaustive, justa reflection on the relationships between narrative and motherhood in the works cited, leaving open theway si that the corpus to be analyzed might be expanded in the future.

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Author Biography

Patricia Guzmán

Profesora en Lengua y Literatura Inglesas de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, maestranda de la Maestría en Literaturas Comparadas de la misma universidad. Jefa de área del Profesorado de inglés del Instituto Superior de Formación Docente N ° 97 de La Plata. Formadora de inglés del Equipo Técnico Regional (Región 1) de la Dirección de Formación Docente Permanente. Equipo de Gestión Curricular- Dirección Provincial de Educación Primaria, Provincia de Buenos Aires.

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Published

2022-12-13

How to Cite

Guzmán, P. . (2022). Motherhood questioned in “Yesterday’s Weather” by Anne Enright and “Conservas” by Samanta Schweblin”. Language and Literature Magazine, (40), 47–56. Retrieved from http://170.210.83.53/index.php/letras/article/view/4415

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