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The Transformation of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter

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Kordel P., University of Gdańsk, Patrycja Kordel is a PhD candidate at the University of Gdansk w. s. g. w. h. i. A. S. H. a. i. i. C.-A. l. a. i. S. a. e. t. b. o. a. t. c.-r. m. i. c.-s. t. o. e. A.

Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre

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2014

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vol. 2

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issue 2

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The mother/daughter bond is the central subject of Amy Tan’s two powerful books, The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter. Tensions that arise in the novels between a Chinese mother and her Chinese-American daughter are often described by the critics as being the result of two important factors. One is based on the misunderstandings caused by the generational gap, while the other comes from the cultural gap. For a Chinese-born mother the American reality instigates various confusions, as she still views her life with the eyes of her traditional Chinese upbringing. On the other hand, her daughter lacks any profound knowledge about her Chinese ethnicity, which makes her unable to recognize the influences of her mother’s Chinese past over their relationship. But in her novels Tan portrays also the relationship between the Chinese immigrant mother and her mother in China. Their relationship, which grew up exclusively on the grounds of the Chinese culture, is characterized by empathy and appreciation. In this paper I am going to discuss the change that occurred to the mother-daughter relationship after it has been replanted into a different cultural context. The line of argument will reveal in what ways the mother-daughter relationship underwent a significant transformation.

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THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP IN MANJU KAPUR’S DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS

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Bălănescu O.

Gender Studies

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2013

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vol. 12

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issue 1

292-307

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This paper attempts an analysis of Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters from the perspective of mother-daughter relationships. Starting from the assumption that the mother plays a crucial part in socialising children into traditional gender roles, I will focus on family relations and women’s quest for identity in an Indian society set against the backdrop of Partition.

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“White World, Not a Sound.” Paternal Spaces in Samuel Beckett’s Embers

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Kisiel M.

Romanica Silesiana

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2017

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vol. 12

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This paper aims at the interpretation of the father as an empty figure of authority in Samuel Beckett’s radio play entitled Embers. Through the close-reading of this play and the analysis of the relations between the protagonist and the two feminine characters, Ada and Addie, it demonstrates how the father figure coincides with the classical impasse of Beckett’s oeuvre: the subject unable to manifest itself. Due to that fact, the father is presented in the constant process of wearing his authorial space out. It is eventually demonstrated that in Embers the subject is coerced to balance between its self-deconstruction and the paternal violence: its focus on its own materiality results in the collapse of language, whereas overt attention on the linguistic cognition puts forward the logic of remnants resisting father’s orders, be it in the form of sound collage, or material element immune to symbolisation.

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Madre-figlia: un binomio complesso

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Serkowska H.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

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2018

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vol. 45

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issue 3

59-72

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The article examines some decisive transformations that took place in the representation of the motherdaughter relationship, reflected in texts written by Italian women writers between the early 1900s and the early 2000s. Although updated, both motherhood and mother-daughter relationship appear closely linked and anchored to problems that imprison women in various predicaments. The corpus here under analysis focuses on unusual literary genealogies.

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PROBLEMY PSYCHOLOGICZNE KOBIET JAKO SKUTEK DEFICYTU OBECNOŚCI OJCA W DZIECIŃSTWIE

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TYKARSKI S.

Studia Ełckie

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2015

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vol. 17

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issue 4

391-404

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The article aims to show the role and meaning of the father in his daughter’s life. For a daughter who grew up without a father – who was absent in physical and emotional way – what results are serious consequences which affect her adult life. For example, those results are different types of psychological difficulties (of emotional, intrapsychic, or interpersonal nature). The author’s survey of the cases is based on the letters of adult daughters to their fathers, which contain a kind of retrospection. On the basis of the analyzed material what has been distinguished are the following consequences: the deficit of time spent with father becomes for daughter the cause of her inability to establish interpersonal relationships and create relationships; the deficit of affection shown by father is a source of impoverishment in his daughter’s emotional life; father’s absence in or abandonment of the family is for his daughter the cause of stress and depression.

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Father and Daughter: A Recovered Link in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Queen of Dreams

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Gouaux‑Rabasa L.

Romanica Silesiana

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2017

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vol. 12

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an English-speaking writer who was born in India in 1956 and is currently living in the United States. In Queen of Dreams published in 2004 she depicts the conflicts between Rakhi, a young American in her thirties living in California, and her India-born parents. Rakhi reproaches them for refusing to initiate her to Indian culture, particularly blaming her father for not being able to communicate. However, the mother’s death is the trigger for the father’s story. The father becomes the one who tells his daughter about life in India, thus embodying the missing cultural link in Rakhi’s family tree. The aim of this article is to offer an analysis of the father-daughter relationship as presented in Queen of Dreams. It intends to put into light the part played by the father in helping his daughter understand the way transgenerational loyalties work, and create a new identity of her own.

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Kobiece narracje kryzysu. Doświadczenie żałoby w „Sorge” Aleksandry Zielińskiej

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Szewczyk J.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2022

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issue 14

67-81

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This article concerns Aleksandra Zielińska’s novel Sorge. The author focused on relationships beetwen women – mothers, daughters and sisters in perspective of women’s mourning and also uses cathegory of trauma, abnormal grief and unresolved grief. The author analyses Sorge as (post)pandemic reinterpretation of legend of Pied Piper of Hamelin and examines contemporary forms of mourning in perspective of social quarantines.

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The Ancient Roman Family in the Context of Antiquity

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Sojka S.

The Person and the Challenges. The Journal of Theology, Education, Canon Law and Social Studies Inspired by Pope John Paul II

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2020

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vol. 10

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issue 1

283-302

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This article discusses the every-day family life in ancient Rome and its functioning throughout the period of royal, republican, and imperial Rome. The article draws attention to the roles played by Roman family members of antiquity. Positive values cultivated by the ancient family, which are outlined in this essay, might provide a way to understand Roman antiquity through the contemporary lens and provide a postulate of the reflexive human nature in this respect.

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Charakterystyka zachowań osobowościowych pomiędzy ojcem a dziećmi w rodzinie

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Senko T.

Psychologiczne Zeszyty Naukowe

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2018

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issue 1

11-34

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W artykule autorka opisuje poglądy na temat roli ojca w rodzinie oraz charakteryzuje relacje w parach ojciec–syn oraz ojciec–córka. Przedstawiono charakterystykę współczesnego obrazu ojca i jego roli w życiu dzieci oraz znaczenie relacji ojca z synem i córką w ramach kontaktów rodzinnych. Głównymi problemami badawczymi występującymi w badaniu były: analiza relacji w parach ojciec–syn oraz ojciec–córka, analiza zależności pomiędzy osobowością ojca a zachowaniem osobowościowym syna i córki. W badaniu wykorzystano sondaż diagnostyczny, ankietę, wywiad, rysunek „Mój tata” oraz autorską metodę diagnozy zachowań osobowościowych. Do analizy statystycznej danych empirycznych stosowano standardowe procedury statystyczne. Wyniki badań pokazują, że istnieje wzajemny związek pomiędzy zachowaniem osobowościowym ojca a zachowaniem osobowościowym syna i córki

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In this article, the author presents views on a father’s role in a family and describes a ‘father- son’ and ‘father-daughter’ relation. The goal of the study was to research communication between fathers and their sons and daughter employing empirical analysis of the individual behaviour forms in pairs „father-son” and „father-daughter”. The main research problems were: the analysis of the father- son and father-daughter relations, the analysis of the connection between the father’s personality and personal behaviour of the son and daughter. Diagnostic survey, questionnaire, interview and the author’s own method for diagnosing personal behaviours were used in the research. Statistical analysis was conducted with standard statistical criteria. In conclusion, the relations between various individual behaviour forms of fathers and their child’s are revealed and described.

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Daughter–Father Relationships. Biographical Research from a Feminist Perspective

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Ostaszewska A.

Nauki o Wychowaniu. Studia Interdyscyplinarne

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2017

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vol. 4

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issue 1

204-217

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Niniejszy artykuł jest skromnym przyczynkiem do debaty na temat refleksji nad doświadczeniami biograficznymi, w szczególności dotyczącymi relacji między córką a ojcem. W artykule omawiam przeprowadzony projekt badawczy poświęcony młodym kobietom, studentkom oraz ich postrzeganiu relacji córki z ojcem. Analizie poddaję autobiograficzne eseje kobiet studentek, uczestniczek projektu. Główną ideą tych badań jest dowartościowanie punktów widzenia samych kobiet oraz podkreślenie roli refleksyjności w procesie rozwijania samoświadomości. W tekście próbuję również przyjrzeć się własnemu procesowi stawania się refleksyjną badaczką feministyczną.

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This article aims to contribute to the debate about the reflection on biographical experiences, in particular, the relationship between daughter and father. It presents my research project devoted to young adult women, students, and their perceptions of their relationships with fathers. It also contains an analysis of autobiographical essays of female students (the research participants). The main idea of this research is to appreciate the women’s points of view and to underline the role of reflexivity in the constitution of self-knowledge. Also, I try to discuss my process of becoming a reflective feminist researcher.

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Rodzina a wiara w Passio ss. Perpetuae et Felicitatis

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Stawoska-Jundziłł B.

Vox Patrum

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2017

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vol. 67

555-572

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This article concerns about family thread in description of Perpetuae’s martyrdom in 3rd century Carthage. It describes Perpetuae’s family structure, family form upper strata of Roman Africa society, but not from aristocracy. The main function has father but almost equal in prestige is his daughter – Perpetua. Her husband was not mention text did not mention, except from the fact of being a father. Similar faint role have two living brothers. Story focus more on the youngest dead brother, that died in torment from deceased. Author suggest that Perpetua form unknown reason have advantage in prestige above her pagan father, implements, from her martyrdom, plan for salvation all of her family. This “altruistic” plan is to shorten posthumous torments for not baptise brother and to end members of family dilemma, torn between new religion and tradition. It makes Perpetua, a heroic person, that sacrifice upbringing of her child for the sake of rest family. This text’s meaning is rather exceptional for the early Christian literature and it definitely exclude authorship from Tertullian because of his view on women.

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The Transformation of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter

THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP IN MANJU KAPUR’S DIFFICULT DAUGHTERS

“White World, Not a Sound.” Paternal Spaces in Samuel Beckett’s Embers

Madre-figlia: un binomio complesso

PROBLEMY PSYCHOLOGICZNE KOBIET JAKO SKUTEK DEFICYTU OBECNOŚCI OJCA W DZIECIŃSTWIE

Father and Daughter: A Recovered Link in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Queen of Dreams

Kobiece narracje kryzysu. Doświadczenie żałoby w „Sorge” Aleksandry Zielińskiej

The Ancient Roman Family in the Context of Antiquity

Charakterystyka zachowań osobowościowych pomiędzy ojcem a dziećmi w rodzinie

Daughter–Father Relationships. Biographical Research from a Feminist Perspective

Rodzina a wiara w Passio ss. Perpetuae et Felicitatis