MATRICIDE AND OTHERNESS IN TATIANA ȚÎBULEAC’S NOVEL " VARA ÎN CARE MAMA A AVUT OCHII VERZI" Cover Image
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MATRICIDE AND OTHERNESS IN TATIANA ȚÎBULEAC’S NOVEL "VARA ÎN CARE MAMA A AVUT OCHII VERZI"
MATRICIDE AND OTHERNESS IN TATIANA ȚÎBULEAC’S NOVEL " VARA ÎN CARE MAMA A AVUT OCHII VERZI"

Author(s): Anca Tomoioagă
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Romanian Literature
Published by: Editura Universitatii din Oradea
Keywords: matricide in literature; otherness; love; detachment; Romanian literature after 2000;

Summary/Abstract: The present study focuses on motherhood as literary theme and also on the construction of the main character –Aleksy’s mother. The paperwork takes into account Kristeva’s vision on motherhood as passion – the paradigm for any human experience of love. In Tatiana Țîbuleac’s first novel, the characters, mother and son, try to activate the healing potentialities of such a relationship that initially failed (generating identitary traumas) and to redefine themselves through the other. Motherhood as passion involves a primary narcissism that could harm the child. Only depassioning, detachment i.e. a symbolical matricide make a good mother and make the son feel simultaneously loved and autonomous, as Other

  • Issue Year: 27/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 63-80
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English