Aspectos de la representación de la maternidad en la novela femenina
Author
Hidalgo, PilarDate
1988Abstract
This paper analyses the fictional presentation of childbirth in
the British female novel from the 1960s onwards. Starting with the
pioneer work of Doris Lessing and Margaret Drabble and the shift
from childbirth as seen by a spectator to childbirth as experienced
by the female subject, we move on to discuss the role of female
biology in Fay Weldon and her creation of new maternal
archetypes; the quasi-mythic pregnancy of a man turned woman in
Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve; and Eva Figes's recording
of English history in The Seven Ages through the ways women have
given birth.