El mito de Perséfone y el conflicto de la maternidad en «Mother love», de Rita Dove
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2020
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Salcedo González, Cristina. «El mito de Perséfone y el conflicto de la maternidad en “Mother love”, de Rita Dove». Journal of Feminist, Gender and Women Studies, n.º 9, 2020, pp. 33-39. revistas.uam.es, https://doi.org/10.15366/jfgws2020.9.004.
Abstract
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Este artículo se propone estudiar de qué manera la modernidad introduce nuevas formas de interpretar el vínculo mítico entre Perséfone y Deméter. Para lograr este objetivo, se partirá, en primer lugar, de un estudio de las versiones clásicas de dicha relación y, en segundo lugar, de algunas interpretaciones influyentes ofrecidas en la modernidad. En tercer lugar, se analizará en detalle el acercamiento particular al vínculo madre-hija que propone Rita Dove en su poemario «Mother Love» (1995) y se desentrañarán las estrategias que esta escritora utiliza para alejarse de la visión idealizada del vínculo y así invocar una manera más compleja y rica de entender las identidades femeninas y, también, los vínculos entre mujeres.
ABSTRACT: This article aims to pin down the extent to which modernity introduces new ways of understanding and representing the mythical bond between Persephone and Demeter. In order to achieve this, I will first provide a critical review of the manner in which classical authors have interpreted the mother-daughter relationship; and, secondly, I will briefly refer to the most influential contemporary treatments of the bond. Thirdly, I will discuss the vision Rita Dove develops in her collection of poems «Mother Love» (1995) as well as the strategies she uses to depart from the idealised vision of the bond. This analysis will bring attention to Dove’s particular understanding of the Persephone-Demeter relationship, one which detaches from the general tendency.
ABSTRACT: This article aims to pin down the extent to which modernity introduces new ways of understanding and representing the mythical bond between Persephone and Demeter. In order to achieve this, I will first provide a critical review of the manner in which classical authors have interpreted the mother-daughter relationship; and, secondly, I will briefly refer to the most influential contemporary treatments of the bond. Thirdly, I will discuss the vision Rita Dove develops in her collection of poems «Mother Love» (1995) as well as the strategies she uses to depart from the idealised vision of the bond. This analysis will bring attention to Dove’s particular understanding of the Persephone-Demeter relationship, one which detaches from the general tendency.