عنوان

Rosie Carpe and the Virgin Mary:

شماره

LA124785

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Rosie Carpe and the Virgin Mary:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Modelling Modern Motherhood?

نام نخستين پديدآور

Pauline Eaton

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Marie NDiaye's 2001 novel, Rosie Carpe, incorporates, as one of its several instances of parenting failure, the narrative of the decline of a single mother from adequacy to abuse. This narrative, which is the focus of this article, might be said to put flesh on the bones of Julia Kristeva's deconstruction of the Virgin Mary in her 1980s essay 'Stabat Mater'. Kristeva saw the Marian model as out of date but she interrogated its enduring power and its continuing influence on our cultural perceptions of maternity. NDiaye's eponymous Rosie realises she is pregnant but has no idea how this has come about. Rosie is not represented as a woman who has a religious faith but she decides to accept her child as a holy miracle. This article analyses how the 'mythology' of the Virgin Mary, and other biblical intertext, is woven into the narrative of Rosie's experience of motherhood, so as to counterpoint and illuminate Rosie's bleak and raw inner experience of maternity, an experience which, while confirming that Rosie is not, and never could have been, a modern Virgin Mary nevertheless refreshes the human stories at the root of the Christian narrative. Marie NDiaye's 2001 novel, Rosie Carpe, incorporates, as one of its several instances of parenting failure, the narrative of the decline of a single mother from adequacy to abuse. This narrative, which is the focus of this article, might be said to put flesh on the bones of Julia Kristeva's deconstruction of the Virgin Mary in her 1980s essay 'Stabat Mater'. Kristeva saw the Marian model as out of date but she interrogated its enduring power and its continuing influence on our cultural perceptions of maternity. NDiaye's eponymous Rosie realises she is pregnant but has no idea how this has come about. Rosie is not represented as a woman who has a religious faith but she decides to accept her child as a holy miracle. This article analyses how the 'mythology' of the Virgin Mary, and other biblical intertext, is woven into the narrative of Rosie's experience of motherhood, so as to counterpoint and illuminate Rosie's bleak and raw inner experience of maternity, an experience which, while confirming that Rosie is not, and never could have been, a modern Virgin Mary nevertheless refreshes the human stories at the root of the Christian narrative.

تاريخ نشر

2016

توصيف ظاهري

29-46

عنوان

Religion and Gender

شماره جلد

6/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1878-5417

اصطلاح موضوعی

Abuse

اصطلاح موضوعی

Empathy

اصطلاح موضوعی

Isolation

اصطلاح موضوعی

Motherhood

اصطلاح موضوعی

Virgin Mary

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Pauline Eaton

شماره بازیابی

10.18352/rg.10133

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y