Mother's Day von Carmen-Francesca Banciu | Song of a Sad Mother | ISBN 9783941524460

Mother's Day

Song of a Sad Mother

von Carmen-Francesca Banciu, aus dem Deutschen übersetzt von Zoe-Annamaria Hawkins
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinCarmen-Francesca Banciu
Übersetzt vonZoe-Annamaria Hawkins
Nachwort vonElena Mancini
Herausgegeben und übersetzt vonCatharine J. Nicely
Zeichnungen vonMeda Gheorgiu-Banciu
Buchcover Mother's Day | Carmen-Francesca Banciu | EAN 9783941524460 | ISBN 3-941524-46-1 | ISBN 978-3-941524-46-0

Mother's Day

Song of a Sad Mother

von Carmen-Francesca Banciu, aus dem Deutschen übersetzt von Zoe-Annamaria Hawkins
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinCarmen-Francesca Banciu
Übersetzt vonZoe-Annamaria Hawkins
Nachwort vonElena Mancini
Herausgegeben und übersetzt vonCatharine J. Nicely
Zeichnungen vonMeda Gheorgiu-Banciu
Maria-Maria had broken away from her domineering mother long before her physical death, or at least she thought she had. Neither mother's cruel lashings nor her cutting criticism had prevented her from rejecting the values and ideals that her authoritarian and Communist party-line- towing parents held so dearly. To their crushing dismay, she would not deploy her artistic talents toward embodying the Ceaucescian model of the „new human.“ Quite the contrary, she was going to revel in being imperfect, and embark on a journey of self-exploration in order to discover what it means to be a self that is not defined by being her mother's daughter or a mother to her own daughter. Putting everything at stake to detach from the primal bond that both oppresses and eludes her, Maria-Maria opens herself up to, and achieves, the unexpected.
Banciu explores an uncompromising struggle for selfhood in a singular voice that is vulnerable and authentic, emotional, and unsparingly honest. Beyond a literary study of the complex dynamics that inextricably bind and repel mothers and daughters, Banciu's Mother's Day - Song of a Sad Mother is a courageous reflection on what it means to become and accept one's self with all of the renunciations and rewards that this fraught journey entails. (Elena Mancini)