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Dissertation Information for Hilary Crew

NAME:
- Hilary Crew

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- Rutgers University (USA) (1996)

ADVISORS:
- Kay Ellen Vandergrift

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Jane Anne Therese Hannigan
- Stanley Deetz
- Lea Stewart

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: A narrative analysis of the daughter-mother relationship in selected young adult novels

Abstract: The objective of this study was to examine, through the means of a narrative analysis, how the daughter mother relationship is represented in seventy-five young adult novels available in the United States, the majority of which were published between 1965-1991. The relationship was considered in relation to Freudian narratives of adolescent psychology; feminist theories of the mother daughter relationship; and feminist revisions of female adolescence and the daughter mother relationship in adolescence by Carol Gilligan and the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development. Within this framework, the study examines how the daughter mother relationship is constituted, intertextually, through a number of discursive formations; and how the representation of the relationship is shaped by conventional narrative practices used to tell story in the young adult novel. Taken into account are the different racial, socio-historical, and cultural formations through which the relationship is produced.

It is demonstrated that a gender biased Freudian adolescent psychology and Freudian fantasies of family romances continue to inform stories about adolescent daughters and mothers. Also identified is a set of conventions and ideological practices that encodes love and attachment between daughters and mothers into story, aspects of the relationship that are repressed in Freudian narratives of adolescent psychology. It is shown that the relationship is predominantly produced through a psychological discourse, a moral discourse of mothering, and forms part of a cultural narrative on mothers and daughters. It is shown that there is a limited move towards constructing a more heterogeneous representation of the relationship by writers who employ discursive and narrative practices that subvert Freudian scripts; and through the increasing availability of multicultural representations of the relationship.

It is argued that an understanding of the daughter mother relationship based on Freudian theories constructing the relationship around parameters of independence and separation has implications for professional library and educational practices that are involved in evaluating young adult literature and bringing together young adult texts and readers.

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calculated 2008-01-31 06:10:28

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