Psychological Book Review:
Rebecca Wells Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Culture and generational attitudes may separate them. Memories of physical abuse may be painful and real. Geography may keep them apart -- to say nothing of nasty quotations out of context by Northern reporters -- but mothers and daughters, particularly Southern mothers and daughters have an indissoluble bond -- as do Southern women friends. Although Southern girls may rebel, they always do so in reaction to their mother's value structures, and thus they remain frozen in the dialectic of ladylikeness vs. being a free and wild woman. Being a wild woman and getting the man you deserve, of course, though will always win out. Or, so suggests Rebecca Wells' Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
The best selling book, later made into a popular film, tells the story of Vivi and Siddalee Walker, two Southern women, a mother and daughter of two apparently very different generations, one of the Gone with the Wind era's popularity in the South, the other of the contemporary North. Vivi was mentally ill; the result of her own painful upbringing, and at turns abusive and loving to her young daughter. Siddalee embarks upon a spiritual quest, at one point baptizing herself, to free herself from the past. But only by coming to terms with the past through photographs, clippings, and news articles, as well as recounted memories of her mother's friends, can she move on into a brighter and more positive future.
" (Pettersson, 2006) Oral and written verbal art languages are both used for the purpose of information communication as well as information presentation with the reader and listener receiving an invitation to consider the information. The Narrative & the Symbolic The work of Abiola Irele (2001) entitled: "The African Imagination: Literature in Africa & the Black Diaspora" states that Hampate Ba "...incorporates the essential feature of the oral narrative at significant points
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