ИЗОБРАЖЕНИЯТА НА МАЙКАТА: ДЕМИСТИФИКАЦИИ И ЗАЛИЧАВАНИЯ
DEPICTIONS OTHE MOTHER: DEMYSTIFICATIONS AND ERASURES

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on are the shifts in the images of mother in contemporary Bulgarian prose written by women after 1989, seen as a tendency towards a “demystification of motherhood”. The mother as a literary figure is recognized as a powerful tool through which women authors rewrite the narratives of womanhood. The text examines the rejection of motherhood and frequent images of bad mothers. The objects of analysis are novels published between 1990 and 2006 that fall under the category of “women’s writing”.

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