Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated with the mirror and reflection in literature by women on the basis of the works of the Persian Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) and her American contemporary Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). These two poets astutely employed mirror images for the realization as well as for communication of their turbulent psycho-emotional states to their readers, thereby capturing and conveying the essence of women desperately trapped among the antithetical images of twentieth-century womanhood.
Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation explores the rich diversity of the meanings associated with the mirror and reflection in literature by women on the basis of the works of the Persian Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) and her American contemporary Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). These two poets astutely employed mirror images for the realization as well as for communication of their turbulent psycho-emotional states to their readers, thereby capturing and conveying the essence of women desperately trapped among the antithetical images of twentieth-century womanhood.
Leila Rahimi Bahmany completed her doctorate at the Freie Universität Berlin.
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Preface Note on Transliteration, Dates and Translation of Persian Poetry Introduction: Women and Their Mirrors chapter 1 – Mirroring in Mythology and Psychology "I am That!": Doubling in the Myth of Narcissus and Echo The Petrifying Look: The Myth of Medusa From Narcissus to Narcissism: Freud's Psychological Exegesis of the Myth The Subject as an Alienated Construct: Lacan's Theory of the Mirror Stage A Spatiotemporal Site of Psychological Interiority: Memory as a Mirror Mother-Daughter: The Mutual Mirroring Mirroring in Text chapter 2 – Mirror Imagery in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad A Herstory of a Subject-in-Process Captive to the Male Gaze The Mirror as an Eye The Mirror of the Heart The Otherness of the Self-image The Mirror of the Memory and of the Imagination The Grotesquery of the Mirror Image The Mirror and the Window Mother-Daughter Reciprocity in the Mirror The Emancipated and Emancipating Mirror Self-Mirroring in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad chapter 3 – Mirror Imagery in the Works of Sylvia Plath The Mirror as the Intersection of Academic and Artistic Talent The Mirror as a Weapon of the Femme Fatale The Childless Woman: A Narcissist The Gigolo: Male Narcissism Woman as a Mirror of Male Ego Mother in the Mirror The Monstrous Degeneration Lurking in the Mirror The Promising Mirror Child as a Mirror The Mirror Image Being Identical with the Self The Appalling Otherness of the Specular Self Conclusion Appendix: Farrokhzad's Poems Discussed in the Text with Their English Translation Notes Bibliography Index
Preface Note on Transliteration, Dates and Translation of Persian Poetry Introduction: Women and Their Mirrors chapter 1 – Mirroring in Mythology and Psychology "I am That!": Doubling in the Myth of Narcissus and Echo The Petrifying Look: The Myth of Medusa From Narcissus to Narcissism: Freud's Psychological Exegesis of the Myth The Subject as an Alienated Construct: Lacan's Theory of the Mirror Stage A Spatiotemporal Site of Psychological Interiority: Memory as a Mirror Mother-Daughter: The Mutual Mirroring Mirroring in Text chapter 2 – Mirror Imagery in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad A Herstory of a Subject-in-Process Captive to the Male Gaze The Mirror as an Eye The Mirror of the Heart The Otherness of the Self-image The Mirror of the Memory and of the Imagination The Grotesquery of the Mirror Image The Mirror and the Window Mother-Daughter Reciprocity in the Mirror The Emancipated and Emancipating Mirror Self-Mirroring in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad chapter 3 – Mirror Imagery in the Works of Sylvia Plath The Mirror as the Intersection of Academic and Artistic Talent The Mirror as a Weapon of the Femme Fatale The Childless Woman: A Narcissist The Gigolo: Male Narcissism Woman as a Mirror of Male Ego Mother in the Mirror The Monstrous Degeneration Lurking in the Mirror The Promising Mirror Child as a Mirror The Mirror Image Being Identical with the Self The Appalling Otherness of the Specular Self Conclusion Appendix: Farrokhzad's Poems Discussed in the Text with Their English Translation Notes Bibliography Index
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