In:Translating the Female Self across Cultures: Mothers and daughters in autobiographical narratives
Eliana Maestri
[Benjamins Translation Library 130] 2018
► pp. 289–302
Subject index
Published online: 18 January 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.130.si
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.130.si
A
- abandonment 141, 160, 183
- abject 213–214
- abjection 213, 215, 217
- abortion/s 61, 183, 196, 200, 202, 219, 224, 248
- abyss/es 16, 182, 183, 196, 206–207, 209, 211–216, 218–220, 222, 243, 264–265
- Adelphi183
- adherence (to text)
- æsthetic200
- “semantic”200
- syntactical and rhetorical193
- technical195
- textual209
- adolescence 19, 20n9, 62, 93, 98, 120, 134, 163 ; see also girlhood
- adoption 54, 61–63, 65
- adulthood93
- æsthetic/s 16, 87, 102, 105, 132, 139, 157, 162, 163, 166, 168, 169, 171, 172, 176, 177, 200, 209, 217, 220, 223, 247, 263, 264
- Africa 173, 175, 221, 226, 246, 256
- African-Caribbean
- autobiographical narrative266
- context 237–238
- language242
- literary productions246
- oral tradition225
- societies230
- storytelling221 see also story/teller see also writing
- agency 7, 41, 104, 136, 228
- aggression 27, 53, 60, 213, 219 ; see also violence
- allegory/ical
15, 148
- message217
- point, of view211
- scene217
- alliteration132
- allusive implications262
- alter ego/s 14, 52, 57–59, 86, 246
- alteration/s 5n4, 8, 10, 51, 105, 122, 172, 203, 206, 263, 266 ; see also distortion/s
- alterity 175, 188, 194, 218, 266
- Amazon260
- analysis
- comparative 3, 7, 11, 15–16, 31, 60, 64, 142, 149, 151, 190, 206, 228, 262
- discourse9
- anaphora/ic
199–201, 204, 220, 248
- construction/s 200, 215, 215n71
- repetition/s 198, 200, 202, 265 ; see also epiphora/ic
- translations154
- anomalies
12, 59, 166
- and perturbations 12, 99, 228
- antenatal state134 see also fusion
- Antilles247
- aporia/æ 16, 48, 48n18, 50, 145, 205, 208, 219
- approach/es
- and methodology 6, 259
- bottom-up and top-down9
- Butlerian239
- descriptive-explanatory8
- foreignizing 98, 261 ; see also translation/s
- polyphonic234 see also polyphony/ic see also polytonality see also translation/s
- realist 114, 143 ; see also realism/ist
- semantic 16, 201, 203, 209, 220, 264
- sophisticated approach to language248
- Approfittare dell’assenza 119n37
- arms
- mother162 see also body part/s
- artefact/s 6, 7, 12, 60, 104, 145, 228
- artistic
- confession157
- creativity 157, 179
- development100
- expressions 42, 178, 247
- inspiration182
- qualities139
- symbolism139
- assonances 53, 186, 191
- asymmetrical relationship133 see also symmetry
- Athena 50, 57, 57n22
- auctoritas 113–114, 117
- see also potestas
- authorial
- design200
- eye156
- image155
- interventions117
- messages262
- solitude155
- visual and sensory perception 124–125 ; see also perception/ive
- authority
7, 20–21, 28–30, 38–39, 51, 54, 96, 113, 175n55, 194, 262, 265
- colonizer223
- maternal137
- power and29
-
autobiographical
- canon182
- contract146
- pact/s 165, 264
- persona 6, 17
- autoeroticism129
- autofiction 15–16, 145, 148, 155–156, 164–165, 180–181, 263–264
B
- Being (philosophical concept) 180n59, 216–218, 264
- Bible 20, 49, 53, 260
- biblical scenes44
- biographical information181
- birth 54, 57, 57n22, 58, 86, 120, 122, 146, 156, 166, 174, 212–213, 226, 243, 264
- Black community 229, 231
- black hole 196, 248
- Black woman194
- blood
113, 119–120, 123–124, 135, 138–139, 153, 189, 196, 202–204
- blood shedding189 see also body part/s
- blurb 184–185, 260
- Blythe House 158–159, 161n50
- body/ily
- choreography of the251
- colonized265
- daughter54
- encounter 125, 134, 137
- female 15, 124–125, 143, 212, 238, 245, 251, 267
- maternal 13–14, 17, 55, 133, 174, 249, 251
- matrix245
- mother 133, 143, 157, 163, 245, 249, 263 ; see also body part/s
- narrator238
- theatre of the221
- body part/s 251, 253, 255 ; see also arms see also blood see also breast/s see also eyes see also face/s see also skin
- Bonaparte 24–26, 28–30, 34, 48, 54, 57
- bond/s
- familial 19, 173
- female257
- infant128
- mother-child 154, 245
- mother-daughter 2–4, 14, 99, 119, 134–135, 138, 141–142, 182, 260, 262 ; see also dyad
- bourgeois
61–62, 81
- family 65, 128
- femininity87
- order 73, 73n27
- presumptuousness96
- principles79
- regulating practices81 see also marriage see also petite bourgeoisie
- breast/s 123, 127, 129, 189, 213 ; see also body part/s
C
- cancer 188–189
- cannibalistic
- act213
- scene215
- cannibalization 183, 216n72
- canon/s 41, 117, 148, 172, 182
- Caribbean
- communities 221, 248
- society/ies 221, 222, 230
- world222
- carnival/esque
- gender58
- show238
- Cash, Johnny48
- castration217
- Catholic/ism 14, 21, 34–36, 40, 41-42, 49-50, 51-53, 55-56, 58–60, 99, 260
- chain
- reflections198
- signifiers216 see also signifier
- change, of status 203, 205
- characterization/s 7, 10, 14, 19, 28, 30, 36, 43, 56, 59-60, 63, 87, 130, 183, 186, 195, 207, 214, 233–234
- cheeks
- child122 see also body part/s
- chiasmus
16, 161, 191, 195, 198, 201, 209, 219, 240–241, 243, 245–246, 255
- Butler 241, 243
- chiastic structure/s 192, 208, 222
- child/hood
20n9, 93, 120, 145, 147, 156, 159, 182
- fantasy47
- implacable need132
- narcissism129
- perspective162
- protective halo133
- security blanket 125, 133 ; see also bond/s see also infant see also mother-child
- subjectivity development245
- chimeras/ical 167-169, 172–173, 182
-
chora
167, 173–176, 178–180, 203
- Plato174
- chronotope167
- Church
- Catholic 35–36, 40, 49, 53
- Roman Catholic49 see also Catholic/ism
- circular/ity160
- movement 159, 161
- class
- as a discursive construction14
- conceptualizations14
- conceptualizations of261
- consciousness 13, 60–61, 69, 72, 85, 92–93
- constraints14
- divisions95
- frictions96
- identification/s 73, 97
- markers of 14, 66–67
- mobility 65, 84, 86, 89–90
- positioning 60, 88, 90
- classical rhetoric 22, 240, 264
- cleanliness 76–78, 78n30, 81
- climax/es 117, 131, 183, 234
- Clytemnestra125n40
- cohesive ties 121, 130
- collision/s 45, 241, 243, 245
- collocative clash/es 43, 45–46, 48, 96
- colloquial/ism246
- (the) colon 231–235, 238
- colonial/ism
208–209
- era247
- occupation267
- stereotypes191
- subject 184, 195n64
- subordination218
- territories 16, 220
- (the) colonized
215, 223, 256–257, 265
- universe238
- woman194
- colonizer
184, 190, 215, 223, 243, 247, 249, 255–256, 265
- British 190, 265
- logic184
- male243
- politics190
- post-colonial critique of the256
- religion255
- rigid dogmatism247
- rules243 see also authority
- colonizers’ tools194
- comedy 113–114
- communication dynamism 263, 265
- Communism96
- compensation/s 51, 94, 121, 131, 168-169, 171, 237
- complesso 204–205, 209
- complexity xiii, 5–6, 22, 34, 50–51, 63, 90, 92, 134, 137, 182, 201, 204, 206–208, 217, 237, 240, 252, 260
- connotation/s
- ethical 38, 82–83, 98
- magical187
- negative 77, 112, 133, 135, 137–139, 160
- religious 26–27, 33-34, 38, 42–43
- satirical28
- sexual 46, 85–86
- Conservatism 68, 92
- construction/s
- bipolar207
- cohesive215
- gender 2, 239
- ironic22
- morphosyntactic209
- paradigmatic201
- rhetorical 199, 204, 207
- stylistic193
- syntagmatic and paradigmatic201
- consumerism 68, 95–96
- contestation 55–56, 58–59, 175, 218
- contextual information 9–10, 14, 22, 29, 77, 87, 170
- contradictory evidence 12, 233
- control
- group 12–13, 31
- sample13
- conversational language246
- corporeal/ity
13, 54–55, 56, 124, 178, 189, 222, 229
240–241, 243, 256
- borders217
- expressivity 17, 221–222, 238
- presence 153, 226
- Council, of Trent 35, 42
- Creole writers257
- critical stance261
- criticism, of religion 31, 47
- cross-connections109
- cross-cultural
- configuration222
- fertility185
- fertilizations143
- reading 103, 106, 143, 186, 262
- renderings228
- rendition7
- transfer4
- cross-dressing 224–225, 232 ; see also performance/s
- cruelty 183, 189, 265
- cult 13, 34–35, 40, 49, 259
- cultural
- context/s 7, 11–12, 59, 64, 99, 104, 143, 180–181, 187, 219, 228–229, 259
- distortions260 see also alteration/s see also distortion/s
- expectations 11, 180
- loss38
- positioning185
- turn 1, 4
- Cultural Studies 1, 9, 11
- cumulative effect/s 13, 16, 161, 189, 195, 201
D
- daughter
- career as missionaries89
- development263
- explorative desire167
- narrative sensibility168
- personal and artistic formation157
- personality6
- principles93
- quest for homosexual identity48
- rebellious moment260
- sense of self, geographical 16, 144, 151
- spiritual upbringing90
- unorthodox sexuality47
- upbringing260
- words and literary imagination172
- de Hooch162
- death 53, 65, 132, 139, 146, 183–184, 191, 196, 206, 212, 214, 216, 218–219, 235, 243, 245, 248, 267
- decorum 14, 72, 81, 83, 94, 168
- dehumanization 88, 99
- deictic/s 13, 150, 152–154, 174
- deixis 150, 152
- Demeter 141–142
- demonstrative/s 165, 174
- Des Femmes61
- Descriptive Translation Studies 9, 11
- desire 19–20, 28, 34-35, 47, 56–57, 58, 66-68, 76, 84-85, 87, 90–92, 97, 99, 113, 125, 127, 132, 141, 149, 151, 153–154, 156-157, 161n50, 167-168, 170, 172–173, 184, 213, 216–218, 247, 249, 254, 260, 264–265 ; see also daughter see also heterosexual/ity see also homicidal see also homosexual/ity see also male see also mother/s see also narrator see also sexual/ity
- device/s
- cohesive215
- fictional261
- figurative150
- humorous25
- narrative16
- performative 16, 222 ; see also performance/s
- political209
- rhetorical 208, 209, 233
- self-reflexive 197, 198
- spatial177 see also space/s
- typographical233
- Devil 26–27, 33, 49, 75-76, 80
- dialogic/ism
48, 151, 165
- discovery156
- entity 16, 150
- narrative219
- nature158
- relationship51
- dichotomous logic 187, 195
- dislocation/s
192, 243-244, 266
- left-dislocations 242, 244, 244n86
- to the left243
- to the right195n64
- displacement/s 181, 206, 251, 254
- dissonances 186, 191
- distortion/s 30–31, 32, 51, 59, 260 ; see also alteration/s
- domestication/ing
17, 41, 60, 257
- approach246
- semantic41
- strategies98
- domesticity 79, 81, 160
- dominant norms256
- dramatization/s 116, 117, 223, 230
- dressing up 223-224, 225 ; see also performance/s
- drive/s 61, 85, 97, 134, 167, 175, 182, 192, 217, 225, 264
- dual thinking 16, 180, 204, 217, 220
- duplication/s 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 237, 265
- dyad 3–4, 134–135, 187
E
- echoic allusion/s 29-30, 56
- ecstasy 34, 55, 108
- education 64–67, 76n29, 85, 98, 124, 261
- éducation sentimentale 111, 218
- elliptic connection136
- eloquence221
- emancipation 15, 43, 47, 59, 71, 84, 86, 89, 99, 173
- embedded
- fairy tales14
- figures16
- microcosm225
- narratives56
- embedding
- figures16
- frame217
- narrative57
- emotional
- intelligence130
- investment/s 69, 70
- emotive language264
- Empire
- British73
- language of the 243, 257
- margins of the 184, 191, 195
- encapsulation/s 198, 232, 233
- engulfment135
- enigma222
- enumeration 189, 234
- environment mother161
- epiphora/ic 199, 204, 220 ; see also anaphora/ic
- equality79
- equivalence 4–5, 10, 21, 23, 47, 263–264
- eroticism 131, 133
- eroticized knowledge135
- erotogenic zones129
- ethics 2, 14, 78, 81, 87–88, 94
- European philosophical thinkers185
- evaluative beliefs99
- Evangelical
- campaigns 25–26, 49
- community 36, 48–49
- missionary fights39
- sect20n9
- set20n9
- evil 80, 183–184, 186, 188–190, 195, 211–213, 216, 216n72, 219, 249
- excess 171–172, 217
- exorcism/s 20, 50, 53, 54
- exorcist practices97
- exploration, of the self 156, 181
- eyes
- mother154 see also body part/s
F
- fabrication/s 107, 109–111, 146, 175
- fabulation 105, 109
- face/s
- enslaved 252, 255
- icon of the 253, 267
- mother 152, 155, 157, 164, 249, 250n88
- mother’s faceless251 see also body part/s
- fairy tale/s 14, 15, 21, 52, 53, 54, 56, 58, 84, 105, 119, 119n37, 133, 138–142
- family 39, 39n15, 41-42, 52, 54, 60, 61-62, 65, 66, 69, 70, 75, 79, 84, 99, 103, 106-108, 112, 119, 128, 135, 147, 152, 156, 167, 171, 173, 175-176, 178, 181, 186, 253n90, 260, 264
- father
- description157
- earning power67n26
- family112
- heart attack139
- ideal148
- linear mode, of storytelling149
- mask224
- moral qualities157
- moral rectitude147
- physical attributes157
- respect for beauty147
- terminology111
- testimonies148
- warm-heartedness139
- female
- affection125
- alterity266
- condition257
- contacts137
- courage173
- difference135
- empowerment191
- expression243
- genealogy/ies 113, 140, 186
- legacies 103, 143
- mediation 125, 140
- narrators7
- philosophers103
- realism 15, 110, 117, 132, 135, 180, 262 ; see also realism/ist
- relations134 see also body/ily see also bond/s
- subjectivity 15, 124, 130, 262
- submission 35, 60
- subordination191
- wisdom 110, 115
- work115
- feminine/ity
- as marker, of difference194
- beauty89
- receptacle179
- feminism/ist 3-4, 4n3, 13, 20n9, 35, 39, 47, 57n22, 64, 65, 68, 78, 84, 88, 92, 93, 95, 98-99, 102, 102n33, 104, 104n34, 109, 110, 123, 134, 139, 142, 143, 175n55, 181, 185, 188, 219, 251, 262
- fertility 185, 253
- fictional
- explorations 3, 15, 104, 262
- identities2
- narratives 93, 99
- personæ2
- figure/s, of speech
16, 124, 132, 191, 198, 200, 202, 217, 240, 241, 252, 253, 255, 256
- periphrastic193 see also alliteration see also aporia/æ see also chiasmus see also climax/es see also hendiadys see also hyperboles see also litotes see also metaphor(s)/Ization see also metonymy/ic see also mise-en-abyme see also polyptoton see also synæsthesia
- fixation 137, 251
- fluidity 124, 149–150, 172, 174–175, 182, 222, 231
- focalization/s 181, 226, 263 ; see also point, of view
- footnote/s 46, 212
- forma mentis 261
- formal attenuation194
- formation
- æsthetic163
- artistic 155, 157, 168
- daughter’s personality6
- identity 21, 218, 239, 259
- personhood4
- professional104
- psychological238
- subjectivity 3, 245
- fragmentation 182, 199, 207, 217, 232, 250
- frame/s, of reference 5, 8, 14, 21–22, 24n11, 25n11, 33, 37, 59, 112
- Free In/Direct Discourse/Speech/Question 17, 66, 153, 170, 172, 226, 226n77, 229, 231–232, 234, 238–238, 246
- French women theorists 259, 261
- Freud/ian 3, 125n39, 128–129, 137, 170, 180n58, 251
- fronting, of direct objects243 see also dislocation/s
- functional equivalents 23, 30 ; see also equivalence
- fusion
- danger of 125, 135
- preverbal212 see also antenatal state
- risks of137
- symbiotic156 see also symbiosis
G
- garden, of Gethsemane57
- Garzanti Linguistica 107, 215
- gay 33, 44–46, 62, 98
- Gender Studies 2, 4, 9, 21, 222
- gender/ed
- and class and motherhood63
- approach to perception143
- awareness263
- biases 86-87
- constraints to patriarchy261
- dichotomy105
- dynamics264
- identity 3-4
- image116
- in the feminine 110, 262
- inequalities81
- issues 1, 61, 140-141
- links123
- oriented texts4
- perspective 15, 149, 195
- polarities 36, 57
- politics 78, 97, 100
- revisions101
- roles 52, 58, 79, 81
- self63
- substratum 6, 21
- symbolism138
- terms140
- writing3
- genealogical connections125
- ghost/s 3, 103, 134, 142, 243, 245, 250n88
- girlhood61 see also adolescence
- Giunti219
- glass-blowing116
- glass-spinning116
- Good Fight 25–26
- grammar 131, 243, 247, 266
- grammatical structures 241, 247
- grandmother
- altruism113
- precepts113
- selflessness 108, 113
- gratitude 138, 262
- Grice/an 22-23, 56, 59
H
- happiness 100, 166, 173, 205
- haptic gratification131 see also pleasure/s
- hearth 111, 160–161
- hegemony/ic37
- discourses20n9
- holds93
- literatures221
- norms239
- religion34
- structures, of knowledge110
- hell 188, 216, 252, 255–256
- hendiadys 120, 170
- hermeneutic properties63
- heroic past158
- heroine184
- heteronormative/ity62
- biases61
- constrictions58
- criteria47
- environment19
- heterosexual/ity
3, 52, 62, 79, 84, 87, 94, 97–98, 261
- coupling94
- desire87
- discourses87
- family62
- love93
- normalcy94
- norms85
- orientation129
- union/s 41, 62
- hiatus 157, 174
- historical background229
- holy war/s 26-27, 30, 39
- home 19, 39n15, 47, 49, 81, 160, 166, 173, 177, 181, 249 ; see also house/s
- homicidal
- desire16
- nature 186, 219
- homophobic position98
- homosexual/ity
19–20, 52, 86–87, 93, 95, 97–98, 100, 260
- desire 58, 260
- disclosure95
- drives61
- groups95
- identity 14, 48
- inclinations47
- Jeanette14
- nature47
- nuances47
- people97
- promiscuity54
- women94
- horizontal and vertical amplification200
- horror and fascination214
- house/s
27, 42, 47, 66, 68–72, 75–76, 79, 80n31, 84, 99, 112, 125, 142, 158–166, 173, 176, 182–183, 197–198, 202, 204, 206, 210–211, 218, 236, 249, 259–260, 264
- angel in the 40, 112, 160–161
- as a symbol159
- blind165
- doll-house 197–198, 204, 206
- enclosure in the173
- father218
- Ma Eunice197
- mother 29–30, 66, 70, 175
- parental 159–160
- publishing 1, 4, 101, 142, 183, 219, 260
- stepmother249
- human rights34
- humankind 141, 184
- humo(u)r/ous 20, 20n9, 24–25, 28, 30, 32, 37, 44–47, 51, 59–60, 100, 259, 261
- hyperboles60
- hyperbolic association25
- hysterical woman223
I
- icon(s)/icity
- beauty255
- blind house165
- British working-class mother99
- Catholic 41, 49
- enclosed space 161, 182
- face 253, 267
- familial259
- female116
- house 158–159
- religious 13, 259
- spiral 10, 12
- Virgin Mary41
- identity
- construction1
- cultural 4–5
- female 2–3, 110, 138, 186
- female quest for125
- gender129
- homologation134
- homosexual 14, 48
- quest for 2, 14, 61, 125, 132, 140
- quest for homosexual 14, 48
- sexual 15, 19, 129, 239, 263
- ideology/ical
- Christian21
- institutionalization98
- patriarchal88
- preconceptions135
- preferences137
- principles6
- subversive86
- idiomatic
- expression/s 27, 43, 51, 91, 160, 250
- solution177
- Il cielo stellato dentro di noi 115
- Il filo di Arianna 137
- Il profumo della maestra 108
- illusory reflections175
- impersonation/s 223–224 ; see also performance/s
- incipit 146–147, 151, 155–157, 162
- indigenous population 190, 215n70, 248, 265
- infant
- conflicts134
- experience129
- urgent needs161
- institution/s
- ethical6
- hegemonic80
- heterosexual60
- ideological 78, 93, 96
- patriarchal 190, 265
- political7
- integrity 80, 88, 160, 251, 256
- intergenerational negotiations182
- internalized
- spectacle225
- stage199
- International Women’s Day219
- interrelationality182
- interspaces 174–175
- interspatial/ity 16, 167–168, 172, 177-179, 182
- interspatialization172
- intersubjective/ity 13, 16, 149, 150-152, 156-157, 162, 164, 165, 166, 173, 175, 180, 208, 216, 238
- intertextual/ity 2, 9, 20, 111, 116, 143, 145, 163, 172, 184, 209, 211, 218, 222, 248, 259, 262, 265
- introjection/s 134, 183, 265
- ironist, allotropic60
- irony/ic 14, 19–23, 24, 28-29, 29n14, 30–31, 34, 43–48, 50, 50n19, 51–52, 56, 59, 60, 64, 94, 96, 114, 194, 259, 261, 263 ; see also meaning see also narrator see also overtones see also strategies
- iteration/s 202–203, 217, 222
J
- jouissance 125
- juxtaposition/s 25, 28, 44, 45, 116, 150, 162, 176, 201, 224, 229, 233, 261
K
- kinæsthetic quality154
- kinæsthetic word170
- king/s 52, 56, 90–91, 139
- knitting 114–116, 178
- Kore141
- Kristevan philosophical concept262
L
- La magica forza 186, 186n61, 187, 187n62, 188–189, 192, 194–196, 204, 211, 214, 218–220
- labour market38
- Lacan/ian 35, 152, 180n58, 196, 201, 217, 240, 251
- laceration 16, 211–212, 214, 219
- laughter 114, 151, 174
- (the) Left79
- legacy/ies xiii, 3, 15, 94, 102, 103, 116, 140, 143, 172, 213, 221, 262–263
- leitmotiv/s 105, 138, 183, 197, 204, 250, 252
- lesbian(s)/ism 19, 20n9, 45, 46, 47, 95, 97, 98, 260
- lexical
- coherence107
- cohesion103
- correspondences104
- fragmentation199 see also fragmentation
- patterns 15, 103, 106, 203
- reiterations121
- reverberations195
- liberation 15, 79, 97, 100, 215
- libido/inal 124, 129, 131, 132, 245
- linguistic/s
9, 14, 21, 23, 251
- architecture209
- oriented tools263
- prolepsis260
- sensitivity209
- shift/s 7, 12, 59, 80, 246
- sophistication 16, 211, 220
- units9
- literariness 221, 247
- literary criticism 9, 149, 162n51, 191
- litotes 16, 191, 193–195, 198, 209, 219
- locus amœnus 159
- locutions, adverbial, of time and place266 see also space/s
- logos 105, 105n35
- LUD110
M
- macrocosm 199, 206
- macrotextual37
- analysis64
- level248
- observations11
- Madonna 13–14, 34–36, 60, 259 ; see also Virgin Mary
- magical powers 50, 209
- magnifying glass 172, 225
- male
- desire84
- fantasies87
- gaze60
- superiority79
- symbolic order 37, 103
- Manichæan vision76
- Marian
- imagery35
- piety36
- marked position 130–132
- marriage 41, 43, 48, 54, 79, 84–85, 87–89, 93, 98, 139, 239n84, 261
- Martinique247
- mask/s 57, 164, 218, 221, 222, 223, 223n75, 223n76, 224, 225, 226, 231, 233, 237, 238, 240, 249
- master-slave
- entrapment216
- logic 16, 220
- theory216
- (the) maternal
- concepts112
- embrace 162, 165
- enclosure 153–154, 157, 162, 173
- environment 161, 166
- fluid162
- fluidity175
- interspaces175
- legacy 3, 94, 116
- loss220
- mirror257
- passion176
- precept/s 15, 16, 84, 89n32, 90, 94, 101, 262
- realism110 see also realism/ist
- stories 163–164
- tales173
- vocabulary176
- warnings94
- maternity238
- meaning
- affective264
- allusive262
- associative267
- ironic22 see also ironist see also irony/ic
- mediation 42, 113, 117, 125, 137, 137n42, 138, 140, 143, 263
- mediator/s 7, 36, 53
- medieval Catholicism 52, 56, 59
- melancholia 147, 189, 218
- mental construct/s 29, 30, 34
- metafictional paradox118
- metanarrative
- function52
- interventions45
- metaphor(s)/ization137
- Baudelairean237
- female/feminine112
- food as a133
- glass135
- home47
- light43
- mask223
- mother43
- multilayered 115, 125
- prophets28
- religious 33, 59
- skein178
- “slugs”76
- war26
- whole256
- woman140
- womb173
- writing218
- metonymy/ic
17, 223, 252, 252n89, 253n90, 255
- aspects256
- charge 253–254
- connective136
- link136
- relation98
- routes254
- terms253
- Mettere al mondo il mondo 102, 108, 110
- microcosm 160, 199, 206, 225
- microtextual analysis11
- (the) middle(-)class
- aspirations62
- comfort66
- decorum83
- elite14
- generation79
- lifestyle/s 79, 84, 95
- logic, of money84
- manners70
- mother76
- notions, of gendered self62
- politeness72
- precepts81
- prejudices78
- respectability90
- status 61–62
- status quo61
- style69
- traditions70
- traditions and rituals70
- values 73, 90
- virtues87
- White 62, 98
- women 62, 70, 72, 88
- milk 120, 123–125, 132, 135–136
- mimesis 13, 15, 101–102, 104, 117n36, 259
- mimicry56
- miming techniques230 see also performance/s
- mirror/ing
- effect/s 201, 241
- games 134, 152
- image 152, 154–155, 246, 254
- metaphorical245
- stage 16, 150, 152, 152n45, 154, 162, 217–218, 245, 248–251, 254–257
- mise-en-abyme 16, 196–199, 201, 204–205, 207, 209, 216–217, 219, 233
- mise-en-scène 117, 225
- missionary/ies 34, 37, 39n15, 54, 69, 71, 84, 89, 241, 260–261
- mistress 223–224
- misunderstanding/s 50, 90, 93, 96, 111
- mobility 26, 65, 84, 86–87, 89–90, 156, 160, 169, 172–173, 176, 181
- Mondadori260
- monogamy 98, 261
- monster/s 54, 82, 88, 94, 125, 132, 189, 211
- moral/ity 62–63, 81, 98
- morphosyntactic relations204
- mortifications190
- Mother Nature183
- mother-child
- relationship 214, 217 ; see also bond/s
- separation212
- mother-daughter
- novels260
- re-encounter141
- relationship 2, 52, 134, 142, 153, 163, 174, 185, 259 ; see also dyad
- sense of self, geographical151
- motherhood 2–3, 7, 35, 41–43, 61, 63–64, 78–80, 88, 93, 98, 104, 219, 229, 261
- motherland 221, 256
- mother/s
- administrative commitments37
- aggression27
- alter ego52
- approach to storytelling 104, 130, 144
- archaic214
- chimerical iniquity169
- cognitive landscape180
- Conservatism92
- critical opinions, of men29
- cultural capital 66–67
- desire for power28
- dynamic interspatiality16
- eccentric personality111
- feminine gender identity129
- feminist ideas47
- garden74
- gaze 26, 152
- healing abilities54
- heterosexual orientation129
- idea, of power30
- inaccurate memories147
- indifference to marriage41
- language 83, 177, 182
- love213
- marginalized3
- masculine traits29
- medieval Catholicism52
- military agenda30
- milk 120, 123
- moral rectitude80
- narrative style 176–177
- obsession with cleanliness77
- peaceful domestic space169
- phallic 48, 260
- precepts 89, 99, 262
- public activism14
- realism 110–113, 116, 143–144 ; see also realism/ist
- religious fanaticism26
- repulsion at sex83
- resistance to patriarchy14 see also body/ily
- sense, of class 64, 90
- skein-like narrative150
- social frustrations34
- stories 106–108, 110–111, 113–114, 166–167, 170–172, 175–177, 180, 182, 264
- tales 108, 167, 175
- transvestism58
- unmotherly212
- unrealistic fantasy28
- violence214 see also aggression see also violence
- wisdom110
- working classness72
- working-class 14–15, 68, 78n30, 84, 99
- mothers and daughters
- Italian theoretical literature on15
- theoretical and literary production on265
- multilayered discourse233
- multiple recurrences201
- mystification112
- mythical narratives221
- mythology 21, 125n40, 141 ; see also Athena see also Clytemnestra see also Demeter see also Kore see also Orestes see also Zeus
N
- narcissistic omnipotence134
- narrating I 96, 159, 170, 198, 213, 226
- narrative drama/s 224, 225
- narratology/ical 9, 47, 117, 150, 153, 222, 226, 233, 236, 263
- narrator
- corporeal manifestations229
- criticism45
- desire156
- dramatic role237
- intention 51, 213
- ironic personality48
- patriarchal view263
- perspective163
- polyphony232
- reporting verb231
- rhetoric195
- sense of self, geographical158
- staged interpretation229
- vocal alternations238
- words81
- Napoleon 28, 44
- negation/s 174, 194, 196, 199
- negative/ity
13, 16, 76, 183–189, 191, 193, 203–204, 207–209, 213, 217–220, 259, 262, 264
- charge213
- conceptualizations of 16, 186–187
- load192
- potentials of214
- psychoanalytical notions of187
- refractions198
- sign system197
- weapons195
- nicknames248
- nominalization 160–161
- non-Being 196, 212, 216, 264 ; see also Being
- non-presence 243, 245, 250
- normalization60
- nostalgia147
- nostalgic remembrance218
O
- objectified, woman56
- ocean/ic 178, 182, 205, 259, 264
- OED 48n18, 169, 171, 177, 177n56
- Œdipus complex/phase 3, 128, 134
- Old Testament 24, 27, 30, 49–50, 68, 95–96, 214
- omission 122, 135, 152
- oneness134
- orality 16, 221–222, 230, 233, 237, 247–248
- Orestes125n40
- origin myth151
- overtones
- biblical214
- ironic 24, 94 ; see also ironist see also irony/ic
- metaphorical254
- post-colonial199
- psychoanalytical215n70
P
- paganism50
- pain 67, 97, 141, 143, 183, 188–189, 196, 199, 202, 214, 217, 220, 265
- parables256
- paradigms 1, 197, 259
- paradox/es 98, 118, 138, 148, 194, 241
- paratex(s)/tual 10, 12–13, 15, 99, 145, 180
- parenthetical/s 22, 131, 263
- parody/ies 28, 30, 56, 58–59, 95, 117, 155
- participative opposition/s 16, 204, 206, 207, 217, 219
- passivity 41, 56, 60, 85, 218–219
- pathos 105, 105n35
- patriarchy 3, 14, 41, 43, 47–48, 59, 61, 87, 89, 92, 96, 98–99, 141, 259, 261
- perception/ive
- æsthetic139
- authorial visual123
- sensory 124–125, 130, 135, 140
- skills 113, 124, 140, 143, 204–205
- performance/s
- bodily 17, 222, 226, 238–239, 246
- class 68–69
- critical256
- gender 14, 59
- multisensory226
- narrator 238–239, 246, 248–249, 255–256
- oral 17, 221, 222, 225, 237, 246
- oral and bodily226
- theatrical 53, 223–224, 239, 239n83, 246
- theories 13, 222, 238–239
- ventriloquist232 see also ventriloquism
- performativity
13, 220–221, 239, 239n83, 243, 245, 248, 250, 257, 259
- theory 17, 240, 266
- permutatio per contrarium 22, 28, 30
- perspective 5, 15, 67, 81, 96, 106, 149, 162–163, 171, 192, 195, 207, 247 ; see also focalization/s see also point, of view
- petite bourgeoisie 63
- phallus251
- physiognomic
- description/portrait 152, 157, 164
- features234
- traits157
- play-within-the-play 225, 233 ; see also mise-en-abyme
- pleasure/s
- erotic133
- haptic125
- orgasmic103 see also desire
- see also jouissance
- sensorial133
- sexual 183, 262
- source of136
- synæsthetic131
- tactile 133, 142
- plenitude218
- point, of view
- maternal31
- narrator 30, 153 ; see also allegory/ical see also focalization/s
- stylistic47
- polyphony/ic
218, 232, 234, 237
- dialogue 17, 156
- effects 32, 231
- resonances229 see also approach/es see also polytonality see also translation/s
- text 16, 185, 218
- polyptoton 200, 200n65, 201–202, 202n67
- polysemic ambiguity45
- polytonality235 see also polyphony/ic
- (the) positive 187, 192, 195
- positive-negative
- dualism/s 187, 190, 194
- oppositions201
- (the) post-colonial
16–17, 220
- areas185
- critical tool255
- debate 17, 222
- dimension220
- implications255
- literature221
- narrative 190–191
- post-nominal position/s 130–131
- post-Œdipal period/stage/phase 128, 134, 260 ; see also Œdipus complex/phase
- post-Reformation 36, 60
- post-structuralism 145, 188
- potestas 114
- see also auctoritas
- poverty 66, 74, 85, 96
- practices, of gender239
- precipice/s
182, 196–198, 206, 210–212, 243
- metaphorical mapping of207
- preface 15, 145–149, 157, 166, 176, 181, 263
- pregnancy217
- pre-nominal position/s 131–132
- pre-Œdipal
- dimension134
- period128
- phase 128, 134 ; see also Œdipus complex/phase
- state135
- pre-patriarchal dimension134
- pre-Reformation Queen36
- preverbal
- manifestations174
- viewpoints238
- primordial whole251
- prince/s 52, 53–54, 56, 84, 88–89, 139, 141
- princess/es 52–57, 96, 103, 116, 119–123, 130, 138–139, 263
- prismatic subjectivities181
- professional profile7
- proliferation, of verbs 169, 171
- prominence
- general244
- local 242–245
- propaganda 26, 38
- proselytism 38–39
- prosodic oscillations217
- Protestant/ism
14, 21, 36, 49–50, 55, 79
- credo49
- culture/s 35–36
- faith55
- loyalty52
- solitude49
- system55
- prototype/s 22, 24n11, 25, 25n11, 56
- proximity 153, 157, 163, 166, 172, 205, 207–208, 255
- psychoanalysis 3, 145, 156, 201
- psychoanalytic/al
3, 168, 174, 201, 215n70
- discourses218
- notions187
- theories 9, 125n39
- psychology 86–87, 130, 141, 170, 172, 222, 251
- public engagement71
- public narratives 77, 90, 92
- publishing convention233
- pun 29–32, 44–46, 90–91, 96, 164
- punctuation
135–136, 153, 230–231, 231n79, 233–235, 237–238, 246–247, 257
- marker136
- regularization of266
Q
- qualifying adjectives129
- qualitative analysis8
- quantitative analysis8
- Queen 36, 42, 42n16, 60, 138–139
- Queen, of Heaven36
-
querelle
149, 263
- autobiography/autofiction 15, 145, 148 ; see also autofiction
- quest 2, 14, 48, 61, 103, 125, 129, 132, 140, 142, 263
- question mark 227, 229, 233–234
R
- racconto/racconto 106–109, 167, 169
- race 92, 133, 239
- raconteur 105, 151
- raconteuse 106, 151, 154
- realism/ist
15, 101–105, 110–114, 116–118, 132, 135, 142–144, 167, 180, 262, 265n92
- approach to life114
- canon117
- novel/istic 101, 117, 117n36
- practice/s 104, 117
- quality138 see also approach/es see also female see also maternal see also mother/s
- realismo femminile 102–103, 109–110, 114, 118, 124, 136, 141, 143
- rebellion 172–173, 218, 239, 260
- receiving culture/s 11–12, 21, 101, 145, 166, 191, 222, 259, 261, 262, 264–265
- rectitude 80–83, 88, 147
- Redemptoris Mater 42, 60
- rejection 34, 71, 86, 183, 213, 217 ; see also abjection
- relationality208
- relationship
- antagonistic214
- clinging’ relationship to love objects130
- religious
- authorities 98, 261
- characterization28
- community 19–21, 31, 39, 97, 261
- congregation 20, 37, 66, 84, 96
- connotation/s 26–27, 33–34, 38, 42, 43
- conversion 43, 82
- devotion 14, 51, 60
- facet 26–27
- fanaticism 26, 31, 34
- movements 26, 37–39
- practitioner105
- preceptor27
- precepts260
- symbol/ism 21, 45, 51
- vocation31
- reorganization, adjectival124
- repetition/s
- double 204, 208
- dual200
- epiphoric199 see also epiphora/ic
- faithful 194, 215
- grammatical130
- intertextual lexical111
- lexical 111, 119, 130, 217–218
- mimetic249
- semantic function of201
- thematic186
- variable 203, 205, 207
- replications, of images198
- reporting verbs 55n21, 238
- res cogitans 150, 156
- res extensa 150, 156
- research questions 10, 15, 102, 180, 228
- resentment 68, 173, 184
- resistance 14, 47, 98, 188, 256, 260–261
- resonances 15, 28, 30, 86–87, 95–96, 143, 145, 163, 166, 184–185, 190, 199, 229, 259, 262, 265
- respectability 62, 78, 81, 84, 88, 90–91, 98, 168 ; see also rectitude
- reverberations 16, 171, 185–186, 195, 201, 206, 209, 211
- reverse format 194, 207–208
- rhematic position244
- rheme
244, 266
- and theme266
- position244
- rhetorical
- architecture207
- effects200
- games44
- organization171 see also adherence
- role-playing 226, 230, 233, 237
- role-swapping151
- gender57
- romantic individuality165
S
- sacrilegious juxtapositions 45, 261
- sadness 70, 205, 235
- saints 36, 49–50
- Salvation Army 26, 38, 39n15, 49
- sameness 4–5, 134, 194, 208
- sarcastic portrayals20n9
- schema/ta
24n11, 25n11
- cognitive99
- reference101
- schematic
- frame28
- knowledge24n11
- link24
- school, in the colonies247
- (the) self/-
118, 156, 158, 175, 181–182, 217, 257
- affection 125, 133
- affirmation216
- assertion260
- conscious realism 117–118, 143, 262
- enslavement/s 216–217
- reflexivity197
- representation125
- sufficiency 71, 84
- semantic/s
80, 169, 171
- addition214
- alteration/s 30, 59, 82, 85, 260
- ambiguities77
- ambivalence77
- clarifications261
- cohesive effects123
- compensation 94, 121, 131
- correspondence effects130
- creativity195
- disconnection136
- equivalence47
- frame/s 21–23, 23n10, 24n11, 25n11, 53, 59, 261
- inversion 22, 28–29
- patrimony256
- reorganizations171
- replacement124 see also approach/es see also transposition/s
- spatiality 149, 264
- semicolon 136, 232, 232n80
- (the) semiotic
167–168, 173–175, 180, 185–186, 217
- alternation175
- chora 167, 173–175, 180
- dimension168
- rhythm176
- semiotics9
- sense of self
- collective222
- geographical 13, 16, 144, 151, 158, 166, 259
- sensitivity 7, 16, 116, 150, 157, 195, 209, 228 ; see also translator
- sensuous experience50
- severance 157, 159
- sex(ed)
33, 57, 62, 76, 82–87, 89, 92, 123, 129, 225
- morphologies251
- related terminology4
- sexual/ity
15, 19–20, 20n9, 47, 52, 61, 64, 67, 76, 79, 81, 84–89, 94, 98, 119, 134, 218, 251, 259
- abstention54
- abstinence53
- abuse189
- anxieties57
- attractiveness87
- awareness31
- capital87
- cognition21
- copulation87
- desire97
- difference 102, 104n34, 108–109, 114, 125, 134, 138, 140–141, 143, 186, 262
- diversity100
- experimentation 57–58
- image46
- intercourse 34, 56, 225
- playfulness57
- politics 34, 47, 94
- scandal54 see also pleasure/s
- subjectivity87
- toy46
- transvestism57
- upbringing 47, 52
- shift/s, linguistic 7, 12, 59, 80, 246
- signified 98, 261
- signifier 180, 188 ; see also chain
- simile 25, 28–30, 34, 48, 120–121, 254
- sisterhood 49, 219
- skin
- child 120, 126 ; see also body part/s
- skopos 10, 261
- slave narratives 266–267
- Snow Queen 138–139
- Snow White 138–139
- social
- differentiation72
- recognition78
- respectability 62, 91
- status 53, 61, 63, 65–66, 90
- sociolinguistics9
- socio-political
- norms15
- precepts6
- solitude 49, 55, 139, 155, 168
- sophistication 16, 68, 201, 211, 220, 222
- space/s
- circumstantial of 199, 202 ; see also locutions, adverbial
- constraints 17, 202
- contiguous 149, 179
- domestic169
- dramatic233
- enclosed 161, 182, 259
- feminine264
- fictionalized175
- imaginary172
- intersubjective 13, 16, 149–151, 157, 164, 173
- localizers158
- male territorializations of165
- maternal 152, 158, 162–163, 182
- mother’s chimerical168
- mother-daughter 158, 162, 166
- motionless207
- mythological167
- narrator’s textual237
- oceanic259
- open 165, 167, 168, 169, 171, 172, 173, 175, 176
- other 153, 212
- proliferation of168
- proxemic 152, 154, 162
- textual 153, 172, 233–234, 237
- theatrical 225, 237
- transitional 16, 160, 173–174, 180
- semiotic 167, 174–175
- spatial/ity
149, 171, 180, 264
- awareness176
- imagery 172, 177
- imprecision174
- language172
- localizers163
- references172
- relations152
- relationships158
- representations 13, 16, 149, 259
- terms173
- spatialization 149–150, 163, 178
- specular/ity207
- effect246
- speculative thinking194
- speech act theory
- Austin239
- status quo 39, 43, 50, 61, 92
- status symbols69
- story/teller
15, 104, 117, 146, 149, 157, 221, 231, 231n79, 237–238, 250n88, 256, 262
- accurate teller181
- African-Caribbean 230–231, 233, 248
- storytelling 13, 15–16, 104–105, 114–115, 117, 119, 130, 143–144, 148–150, 154, 169, 172, 176, 182, 221, 230, 238, 248, 259, 262
- strategies
- ironic44 see also ironist see also irony/ic
- mimetic261
- resistance260
- rhetorical264
- sampling 9, 11 ; see also compensation/s
- theatrical223
- stylistic/s
9, 37
- analysis6n6
- arrangements229
- choice222
- dynamics6
- effects171
- impoverishment237
- information23
- mark 130, 229
- requirements55
- resources23
- tools242
- trait230
- subjectivity 3–4, 15, 43, 59, 61–62, 72, 87, 92, 98, 124, 130, 134–135, 230, 245, 262
- subjugation/s 35, 183, 188, 194, 196, 208, 209, 217
- subordination 42, 105n35, 183, 191, 215n70, 218
- subversion
43, 207, 242–243
- political239
- superordinate103
- suppression 43, 134, 189, 194
- suspension, of disbelief 117, 153, 226
- symbiosis 125, 128, 147 ; see also fusion
- symbolic order 35, 37, 41, 103, 134, 137
- symbolism 21, 138–139
- symmetry 5, 207, 240 ; see also asymmetrical relationship
- synæsthesia124 see also pleasure/s
- synecdoche 17, 160–161, 250–257
- syntactic/al
- and lexical patterns203
- choice170
- expressions200
- inversion17
- length171
- level246
- links216
- mechanism246
- organization243
- rearrangement/s 201, 227, 242
- reorganizations243
- sequence245
- shifts99
- structures203
- syntagma/tic201
- axis254
- syntax 160, 170–171, 198, 200–201, 207, 217, 245, 257
T
- tactile
- proximity207
- representations15 see also pleasure/s
- technical creativity200
- teenager 124–125, 191, 196, 207 ; see also adolescence see also girlhood
- textual
- creativity234
- motility157
- movement157
- productions8
- theatre/ical
- drama225
- mannerism233
- “midgets”56
- productions239
- qualities233
- role-playing 226, 230
- symbol223n76
- thematic
- echoes211
- position 242–243
- recurrences195
- redundancy195n64
- reverberations 16, 201
- structures 243–244, 246
- theme position244
- thetic cut174
- thought, of sexual difference 102, 104n34, 108, 138, 140–141, 186, 262
- TLFi 90, 94
- Translation Studies 1–2, 4, 4n3, 5, 9–11, 13, 17, 21, 23, 23n10, 59, 63, 103–104, 136n41, 191, 228, 256, 263–264
- translation/s
- chiastic161
- criss-crossed161
- feminization of4
- foreignizing5n4 see also approach/es
- hyponymic212
- loss 32–33
- norms8
- particularizing 26, 32, 261
- phonic32 see also approach/es see also polyphony/ic see also polytonality
- shifts 8–9
- theories4
- translator
- agency7
- sensitivity 157, 209
- transposition/s
160–161, 202
- grammatical 161, 199, 202
- inverse160
- semantic 168, 172
- transvestism 13, 52, 57–58, 238n81
- traumatic loss251
- truth-telling 103–105
- two infinite orders of magnitude 9, 13, 64, 186
- typographical 157, 233, 242, 246
U
- umbilical
- cord 249, 257
- separation260
- undifferentiation134
- unhappiness 184–185, 205
- unity 154, 173, 193, 208, 218, 232, 251, 256
V
- value/s
- ethical 56, 83, 92
- performative197
- protection160
- vectorial movement 154, 159
- vectorial shifter170
- ventriloquism
172, 229–230, 232–233, 237
- narrator229 see also performance/s
- verbal infertility157
- verbosity171
- verb-subject inversions228
- Verona-based community 13, 102, 185, 190, 262
- vertical amplification200
- victim 20, 97, 99, 211, 216n72
- victor216n72
- viewpoint 29, 81, 107, 194–195
- violence 27, 194, 196, 208–209, 213–214, 217, 219, 265 ; see also aggression
- Virgin Mary 27, 34–36, 40–43, 49–51, 56–58, 60 ; see also Madonna
- vocal
- interventions256
- juxtapositions229
- plurality226
- power233
- practice221
- voice/s
- authorial 96, 148
- autofictional 165–166
- concurrence of 232, 237
- inner229
- maternal174
- mother 119n37, 172, 176
- narrator 222, 226, 231
- shifting 221, 235, 237
- splitting229
- synchronization of229
- void 70, 150, 196, 218, 264
- voodoo magic243
W
- war 26–27, 61, 158, 159, 188, 208
- weaving 115–116, 138
- Weltanschauung 81
- (the) West/ern/ized267
- culture/s 2, 188, 213
- customs265
- logic213
- narratives266
- world 35, 221
- wholeness 251, 255–256
- wickedness 109, 151, 167, 184, 189, 213, 223
- Wise Men 20, 29–32, 51, 91
- womb 132, 161, 173–174, 182, 212, 252–254
- women
- marginal position of257
- realism138 see also realism/ist
- rights48
- strength 13, 29, 259
- wisdom144
- (the) working(-)class
14, 64, 67, 71–79, 82, 84–85, 87–91, 94–97, 159
- emotion68
- identifications73
- lifestyle70
- mother/s 14–15, 68, 78n30, 84, 99
- parents64
- people 15, 76–77, 80–81
- scholars64
- values 62, 84
- women 64, 67, 73, 76n30, 81, 83, 86, 89–90, 92, 98–99
- writer’s factual truth194
- writing
- African-Caribbean221
- autobiographical 15, 103, 145, 147–148, 155, 164, 166, 181, 266
- autofictional165
- corporeal manifestations in 229–230
- experimental 4, 101, 104, 165
- life 16, 148, 150
- women 2, 4, 267
Z
- Zeus 57–58, 141
