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Author Eckard, Paula Gallant

Title Maternal body and voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith / Paula Gallant Eckard
Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 227 pages)
Contents Historical and theoretical perspectives on motherhood -- Toni Morrison. The bluest eye : the inverted maternal -- Sula : finding the peace of the mother's body -- Beloved : historical realities/maternal mythologies -- Bobbie Ann Mason. In country : mothers, dead babies, and war -- Spence + Lila : memory, landscape, and the mother's body -- Feather crowns : commodifying Southern motherhood -- Lee Smith. Oral history : telling the mother's story -- Fair and tender ladies : letters, language, and maternal subjectivity -- Saving grace : mediating the matriarchal-patriarchal dichotomy -- Conclusion : "listening to the stories that mothers have to tell."
Summary "Throughout human history, motherhood and maternal experience have been largely defined and written by patriarchal culture. Religion, art, medicine, psychoanalysis, and other bastions of male power have objectified the maternal and have disregarded female subjectivity. As a result, maternal perspectives have been ignored and the mother's voice silenced. In recent literary texts, however, more substantial attention has been given to motherhood and to the physical, psychological, social, and cultural dynamics affecting maternal experience. In Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Lee Smith, Paula Gallant Eckard examines how maternal experience is depicted in selected novels by three American writers, emphasizing how they focus on the body and the voice of the mother."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index
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Subject Smith, Lee, 1944- -- Characters -- Mothers
Mason, Bobbie Ann -- Characters -- Mothers
Morrison, Toni -- Characters -- Mothers
SUBJECT Morrison, Toni 1931-2019 -- Crítica e interpretación embne
Mason, Bobbie Ann fast
Morrison, Toni fast
Smith, Lee, 1944- fast
Mason, Bobbie Ann. swd
Smith, Lee. swd
Morrison, Toni. swd
Subject American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Mothers in literature.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Mother and child in literature.
Human body in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Voice in literature.
American fiction -- History and criticism
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature -- Women authors
American fiction
American fiction -- Women authors
Human body in literature
Mother and child in literature
Motherhood in literature
Mothers in literature
Voice in literature
Women and literature
Mutter Motiv
Fictie.
Amerikaans.
Moeder-kind-relaties.
Moederschap.
Menselijk lichaam.
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0826264034
9780826264039