Mothers and Daughters – The Forbidden Plot

דיון בעיקר במחזותיה של מרים קייני בבתא וסוף עונת החלומות

Abstract

In this article I discuss two plays by Miriam Kainy: Babtha and The End of the Dreams Season. In these plays, Kainy presents strong, tough women characters and focuses on the complicated mother-daughter relationship. My intention here is to reveal Kainy’s risky and outstanding contribution to the ongoing discourse on mothers and daughters. In the first section of the article I discuss the feminist psychoanalytical theory which strives to undo the problematic conflict between mother and daughter. In the second section I focus on the analysis of Kainy’s plays. By employing feminist research tools I seek to lay bare her Marxist interpretation of the mother-daughter plot.