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• W1484416436 abstract "John V. Knapp and Kenneth Womack, eds. Reading Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. 333 pp. $55.00 cloth. As volume under review demonstrates, Family Systems Therapy (FST) offers a welcome and refreshing alternative in psychologically oriented literary criticism, still dominated by speculative and outdated Freudian psychoanalysis on one hand and by even more speculative and for most part unintelligible Lacanian theory on other. In contrast to traditional psychoanalysis, preoccupied with intrapsychic, unconscious processes of individual, FST examines growth and differentiation of personal identity within interactive context of family, universally most important, formative, and primary social environment. FST may be the new kid on literary criticism block (13), but as John Knapp explains in his comprehensive if rather sketchy introduction, approach draws on already established methodology in family-oriented psychotherapy, notably Milan School of 1980s. FST also incorporates formal language of systems theory by viewing families as self-regulating, interactive systems whose members keep exchanging information and energy, both to maintain homeostatic balance within family and to develop and protect their individual identities. Given novelty of FST approach to literature, Knapp's informative and compact introduction (only thirteen pages) should in my view be more extensive, even at cost of eliminating one of essays in volume, to treat subject more comprehensively for sake of readers unfamiliar with FST. Also, both in introduction and in most of essays, quite important theoretical discussions are often relegated to notes rather than addressed in main text. Perhaps a more exhaustive introduction containing all needed theory would be a better solution than having theoretical debates scattered throughout book in between textual analyses and in endnotes. The volume is logically divided into three parts, which focus on literary representations of family dynamics starting with individual and his or her search for identity while still entangled in family life (Part I), then moving to wider context of community and its pressures upon family (Part II), to even broader exploration of ways in which culture manifests itself in family systems (Part III). Part I thus starts with an engaging essay by Kenneth Womack on coming of age of heroine of Forster's A Room with a View. The critic emphasizes on one hand importance of art, literature, and music in formation of Lucy's adult persona and on other hand predominantly patriarchal nature of Edwardian social environment in which Lucy strives to individuate her maturing personality. Womack concludes that Lucy ultimately fails or at best achieves only a qualified psychological differentiation from family and extrafamilial systems in which she was reared, largely because of her female status and social pressure to conform to men's image and approval of a young woman in Edwardian era. Rosemary Babcock's essay on Jane Eyre successfully challenges feminist assertion that marriage in general and Victorian marriage in particular was by definition oppressive to women, by emphasizing degree of psychological independence, equality, and genuine companionship that Jane and Rochester, despite their initial social inequality, find in their relationship and eventual marriage. Gary Storhoff s essay in turn applies FST methodology to multicultural texts of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior ana to film Dim Sum (dir. Wayne Wang, 1987), to stress how family conflicts transcend restrictive racial (here Chinese) boundaries and reveal crosscultural, universal themes: battles for power and dominance, pains of individuation, family fragmentation, desire to reconcile generations, and so on. …" @default.
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