ABSTRACT
Landlocked and 'The laugh of the Medusa' foregrounded the relationship between maternity and language and their treatment of that relationship poses one question very clearly. What is the relationship between maternity, language and the feminine subject's access to history? Does participation in language and history necessarily involve a repudiation of maternity? Or is the case that the celebration of a positive relationship to the maternal is necessary if women are to transform language and change history?
