Perspectives

We recommend you put “Your Shoes” by Michèle Roberts into perspective so that you can better understand the issues explored by the text, as well as its connection to similar literary works.

Current issues

The short story “Your Shoes” by Michèle Roberts was published in 1993, but it explores issues which are very much relevant nowadays.

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Literary period/movement

The short story “Your Shoes” is a Modernist work of fiction, in which the author focuses more on the inner struggle of the main character, on the narrator’s stream of...

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Works with the same theme

An interesting short story which explores the defective relationships between mothers and daughters, as well as the theme of control, is “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. In the story, a Chinese mother tries to control her daughter and transform her into a prodigy, while the daughter simply wants to be left to enjoy her childhood.

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