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FORCE RIPE
Title
FORCE RIPE.
Creator
Shand, Janine Ariel, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
At any moment, a time comes where young women see their mothers outside of their motherly presence. Viewing them as a person beyond what they have done and accomplished beyond their offspring. What could be worse is the young woman sees and considers the realities and decisions her mother - this woman - has made and disagrees with them. It is a difficult place to be, in a position as a young woman and seeing the future laid before you embodied in the mother figure. The daughter can choose to...
Show moreAt any moment, a time comes where young women see their mothers outside of their motherly presence. Viewing them as a person beyond what they have done and accomplished beyond their offspring. What could be worse is the young woman sees and considers the realities and decisions her mother - this woman - has made and disagrees with them. It is a difficult place to be, in a position as a young woman and seeing the future laid before you embodied in the mother figure. The daughter can choose to push back and turn against the mother’s role and the woman she knows her mother to be; in order to terminate this prophesied future. Yet, there is promise if the daughter is somehow able to toss this image of the future aside, along with her ego to embrace her mother as a woman and not as an embodiment of the fear of an unknowable future.
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Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013413
Subject Headings
Creative writing, Fiction, Mothers and daughters
Format
Document (PDF)
Crossing the Rainbow Bridge
Title
Crossing the Rainbow Bridge.
Creator
Stefanovic, Patricia A., Florida Atlantic University, Payne, Johnny
Abstract/Description
Crossing The Rainbow Bridge is a novel set in 1971, Key West, Florida. The novel is told in two narrative forms, using the viewpoints of the two main characters. The first of which is told through a third person narrative familiar to the novel's female protagonist, Sara Bailey. The second viewpoint is that of the protagonist's mother, told in first person narrative in the novel's final chapter. The impetus of the novel's focus begins with the sudden and accidental death of the protagonist's...
Show moreCrossing The Rainbow Bridge is a novel set in 1971, Key West, Florida. The novel is told in two narrative forms, using the viewpoints of the two main characters. The first of which is told through a third person narrative familiar to the novel's female protagonist, Sara Bailey. The second viewpoint is that of the protagonist's mother, told in first person narrative in the novel's final chapter. The impetus of the novel's focus begins with the sudden and accidental death of the protagonist's mother. Initially, the mother's character is revealed mainly through retrospective narrative in the form of the protagonist's dreams. As the novel progresses, the narrative relies on the present moment consciousness of the protagonist. That is, following a traditional coming of age story, as the protagonist learns to cope with the death of her mother, the language of the novel relies more heavily on her voice, and less on the third person retrospective narrative to tell the story.
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Date Issued
2002
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12932
Subject Headings
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction, Mothers and daughters--Fiction
Format
Document (PDF)
Lonely journey: Lived experiences of daughters and daughters-in-law caring for aging parents
Title
Lonely journey: Lived experiences of daughters and daughters-in-law caring for aging parents.
Creator
Feder, Deidra Tatum., Florida Atlantic University, Turkel, Marian C.
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this phenomenological research was to explore the lived experiences of daughters and daughters-in-law who care for aging parents at home. Interviews were conducted with four daughters and two daughters-in-law. The interviews were audiotaped and the researcher conducted observational field notes. The interviews were utilized for data-collection and then transcribed into text. The researcher followed van Manen's method. Essential themes were frustration, anger, guilt, lack of...
Show moreThe purpose of this phenomenological research was to explore the lived experiences of daughters and daughters-in-law who care for aging parents at home. Interviews were conducted with four daughters and two daughters-in-law. The interviews were audiotaped and the researcher conducted observational field notes. The interviews were utilized for data-collection and then transcribed into text. The researcher followed van Manen's method. Essential themes were frustration, anger, guilt, lack of social life, effects on jobs and family support as described by the participants. Variant themes unfolded as themes not shared by all the participants: care for the caregiver, education for the caregiver, being a detective, coming out of his shell, like a robot, reference of aging parent as a patient and judgment by others. The researcher uncovered interpretive themes of unconditional devotion, struggling with childlike mannerism, everlasting vigilance and ambivalence through a paradoxical view. Lonely journey surfaced as the metatheme.
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Date Issued
2001
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12791
Subject Headings
Aging parents--Care, Mothers and daughters, Caregivers, Loneliness
Format
Document (PDF)
Eudora Welty's mothers and daughters
Title
Eudora Welty's mothers and daughters.
Creator
McLane, Helen Rene., Florida Atlantic University, Peyton, Ann
Abstract/Description
In Eudora Welty's works, the importance of the mother-daughter relationship lies in its ability to expand the reader's understanding of the individual's search for enlightenment. As a wanderer acts and reacts to people and events, she is most often influenced by her mother, or mother-like figures, and other pairs around her. Welty's bonded women represent the historical, religious, psychological, and sociological studies of this interwoven human relationship; her characters are subtly crafted...
Show moreIn Eudora Welty's works, the importance of the mother-daughter relationship lies in its ability to expand the reader's understanding of the individual's search for enlightenment. As a wanderer acts and reacts to people and events, she is most often influenced by her mother, or mother-like figures, and other pairs around her. Welty's bonded women represent the historical, religious, psychological, and sociological studies of this interwoven human relationship; her characters are subtly crafted to develop a myriad of close and, at the same time, distant bonds. Welty emphasizes the mothers and daughters of Losing Battles, Delta Wedding, and The Optimist's Daughter though Virgie of The Golden Apples represents the strongest point for the conclusion that the mother-daughter relationship supports and enhances Welty's works.
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Date Issued
1989
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14506
Subject Headings
Welty, Eudora,--1909---Criticism and interpretation, Mothers and daughters, Women in literature
Format
Document (PDF)
Microwavable Dinners
Title
Microwavable Dinners.
Creator
Davis, Sabrina Beth., Florida Atlantic University, Bucak, Ayse Papatya
Abstract/Description
Our lives are a series of patterns. In Katrina's case, fear plays a reoccurring role. Each chapter illustrates one particular picture in the protagonist's existence; each scene depicts a different year of her life, ranging from age six to twenty-six. The human body, both inner and outer, is a theme throughout, as well as her relationship with her mother. Each chapter title is named after a type of phobia, ranging from Mnemophobia (the fear of memories) to Ostraconophobia (the fear of shellfish).
Date Issued
2005
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13273
Subject Headings
Fear - Physiological aspects, Women - Family relationships, Mothers and daughters, Phobias, Affect (Psychology)
Format
Document (PDF)