Abstract
Abstract In this paper I use the Bakhtinian concept of the ‘chronotope’ to investigate the ways in which a matrilineal narrative affects the space/time structures of some recent women's fiction. The intersection of feminism and matrilinealism produces particular kinds of structures: in feminist matrilineal narratives, there are often two time‐frames going on at once. There is a synchronic, horizontal plane, on which the generations of women are united by a common femaleness; and a diachronic, vertical axis of descent, leading back into the past and forward into the future. The house inhabited by several generations of women is a very useful spatial device to bring together the synchronic and diachronic patterns that a feminist matrilinealism sets up. I investigate these patterns in relation to Sara Maitland's Three Times Table, Catherine Cookson's House of Women and Tanith Lee's ‘Wolfland’.
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