Very very interesting discussion of the connections between maternity and writing. But why are there no such conflations between Fatherhood and Writing? It must come from the simple notion that mothers take care of their babies all day and need to find the time to write, that writing is a sort of 'finding your own self' after spending a whole day taking care of someone else. But I think there's something else here. Writing is intself a form of mothering, a giving birth to characters and worlds. It was a fascinating discussion that raises many philosophical and psychological issues. Is it possible to tell just from the text whether a writer is female or male, mother or father? Can one tell from the text itself whether the writer has a child?
Very very interesting discussion of the connections between maternity and writing. But why are there no such conflations between Fatherhood and Writing? It must come from the simple notion that mothers take care of their babies all day and need to find the time to write, that writing is a sort of 'finding your own self' after spending a whole day taking care of someone else. But I think there's something else here. Writing is intself a form of mothering, a giving birth to characters and worlds. It was a fascinating discussion that raises many philosophical and psychological issues. Is it possible to tell just from the text whether a writer is female or male, mother or father? Can one tell from the text itself whether the writer has a child?